Existence and uniqueness conjecture for AdS manifolds with prescribed convex boundary metrics

Let SS be the surface in question, and let h+h_+ and hh_- be smooth metrics on SS whose curvature is K<1K<-1. A globally hyperbolic A\mathbbmdS3\mathbb{A}\mathbbm{d}\mathbb{S}^3 manifold is a spacetime homeomorphic to S×[1,1]S\times[-1,1]; its boundary is smooth, space-like and strictly convex when it has these properties, and the induced metrics on the two boundary components are prescribed by hh_- and h+h_+.

AdS convex-boundary conjecture. There exists a unique globally hyperbolic A\mathbbmdS3\mathbb{A}\mathbbm{d}\mathbb{S}^3 manifold homeomorphic to S×[1,1]S\times[-1,1], with smooth, space-like and strictly convex boundary, such that the induced metric on S×1S\times\\{-1\\} is hh_- and the induced metric on S×1S\times\\{1\\} is h+h_+.

The constant-curvature case supplies the existence part by the theorem stated immediately before the conjecture. The analogous assertion for quasifuchsian, and more generally convex co-compact, hyperbolic manifolds is known; the general AdS statement remains open.

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Francesco Bonsante, Gabriele Mondello and Jean-Marc Schlenker, “A cyclic extension of the earthquake flow II”, arXiv:1208.1738 (2012).

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