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Topological tameness of Margulis spacetimes

Geometric Topology 2017-10-30 v6 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that Margulis spacetimes without parabolic holonomy are topologically tame. A Margulis spacetime is the quotient of the 33-dimensional Minkowski space by a free proper isometric action of the free group of rank 2\geq 2. We will use our particular point of view that the Margulis spacetime is a manifold-with-boundary with an RP3\mathbb{R} P^3-structure in an essential way. The basic tools are a bordification by a closed RP2\mathbb{R} P^2-manifold with free holonomy group, and the work of Goldman, Labourie, and Margulis on geodesics in the Margulis spacetimes and 33-manifold topology.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5308,
  title  = {Topological tameness of Margulis spacetimes},
  author = {Suhyoung Choi and William Goldman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5308},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

51 pages, 6 figures. Corrected a few typos (The 6th version of "The topological and geometrical finiteness of complete flat Lorentzian 3-manifolds with free fundamental groups" arXiv:1204.5308v1 [math.GT])