Crooked surfaces and anti-de Sitter geometry

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Crooked planes were defined by Drumm to bound fundamental polyhedra in Minkowski space for Margulis spacetimes. They were extended by Frances to closed polyhedral surfaces in the conformal compactification of Minkowski space (Einstein space) which we call crooked surfaces. The conformal model of anti-de Sitter space is the interior of the quotient of Einstein space by an involution fixing an Einstein plane. The purpose of this note is to show that the crooked planes defined in anti-de Sitter space recently by Danciger-Guéritaud-Kassel lift to restrictions of crooked surfaces in Einstein space which are adapted under the involution of Einstein space defining anti-de Sitter space.

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