Constant mean curvature foliations of simplicial flat spacetimes

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N5.A6MaRDI QIDQ871726zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lars Andersson

Publication date 20 March 2007

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307338

zbMATH Keywords

Compact hyperbolic Cauchy surfacesConstant mean curvature foliationsSimplicial flat spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: Benedetti and Guadagnini have conjectured that the marked lenght spectrum of the constant mean curvature foliation $M_{a}u$ in a 2+1 dimensional flat spacetime $V$ with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surfaces converges, in the direction of the singularity, to that of the marked measure spectrum of the R-tree dual to the measured foliation corresponding to the translational part of the holonomy of $V$. We prove that this is the case for $n+1$ dimensional, $ngeq2$, {em simplicial} flat spacetimes with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surface. A simplicial spacetime is obtained from the Lorentz cone over a hyperbolic manifold by deformations corresponding to a simple measured foliation.

Review text

The author is considering the result by \textit{R. Benedetti} and \textit{E. Guadagnini} [Nucl Phys., B 613, No. 1, 1--2, 330--352 (2001; Zbl 0970.83039)], concerning constant mean curvature foliations in a \(2+1\) dimensional spacetime with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surfaces. One proves that this is the case for \(n+1\) dimensional, \(n \geq 2\), simplicial flat spacetime with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surface. A simplicial spacetime is obtained from the Lorentz cone over a hyperbolic manifold by deformations corresponding to a simple measured foliation.

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