Mess's uniqueness conjecture for maximal globally hyperbolic AdS manifolds

Let SS be the underlying surface, and let hh_- and h+h_+ be hyperbolic metrics on SS. A globally hyperbolic A\mathbbmdS3\mathbb{A}\mathbbm{d}\mathbb{S}^3 manifold is maximal when it is maximal among globally hyperbolic AdS structures, and its convex core has a boundary whose induced metrics are prescribed by hh_- and h+h_+.

Mess's conjecture. There is a unique maximal globally hyperbolic A\mathbbmdS3\mathbb{A}\mathbbm{d}\mathbb{S}^3 manifold NN such that the induced metric on the boundary of the convex core of NN is given by hh_- and h+h_+.

The source presents this as the limiting case, as the curvatures tend to 1-1, of the preceding conjecture or of the constant-curvature theorem. It attributes the statement to Mess and gives no resolution, so it remains open here.

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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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