Existence and uniqueness conjecture for AdS manifolds with prescribed convex boundary metrics
Let be the surface in question, and let and be smooth metrics on whose curvature is . A globally hyperbolic manifold is a spacetime homeomorphic to ; 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 and .
AdS convex-boundary conjecture. There exists a unique globally hyperbolic manifold homeomorphic to , with smooth, space-like and strictly convex boundary, such that the induced metric on is and the induced metric on is .
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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