Cauchy-compact flat spacetimes with extreme BTZ

Abstract

Cauchy-compact flat spacetimes with extreme BTZ are Lorentzian analogue of complete hyperbolic surfaces of finite volume. Indeed, the latter are 2-manifolds locally modeled on the hyperbolic plane, with group of isometries $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\R)$, admitting finitely many cuspidal ends while the regular part of the former are 3-manifolds locally models on 3 dimensionnal Minkowski space, with group of isometries $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\R)\ltimes \RR^3$, admitting finitely many ends whose neighborhoods are foliated by cusps. We prove a Theorem akin to the classical parametrization result for finite volume complete hyperbolic surfaces: the tangent bundle of the Teichmüller space of a punctured surface parametrizes globally hyperbolic Cauchy-maximal and Cauchy-compact locally Minkowski manifolds with extreme BTZ. Previous results of Mess, Bonsante and Barbot provide already a satisfactory parametrization of regular parts of such manifolds, the particularity of the present work reside in the consideration of manifolds with a singular geometrical structure with a singularities modeled on extreme BTZ. We present a BTZ-extension procedure akin to the procedure compactifying finite volume complete hyperbolic surface by adding cusp points at infinity