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Isometries of Lorentz surfaces and convergence groups

Differential Geometry 2014-05-28 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study the isometry group of a globally hyperbolic spatially compact Lorentz surface. Such a group acts on the circle, and we show that when the isometry group acts non properly, the subgroups of Diff(S1)\mathrm{Diff}(\mathbb{S}^1) obtained are semi conjugate to subgroups of finite covers of PSL(2,R)\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{R}) by using convergence groups. Under an assumption on the conformal boundary, we show that we have a conjugacy in Homeo(S1)\mathrm{Homeo}(\mathbb{S}^1).

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@article{arxiv.1402.7179,
  title  = {Isometries of Lorentz surfaces and convergence groups},
  author = {Daniel Monclair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.7179},
  year   = {2014}
}

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39 pages, 7 figures