A note on invariant constant curvature immersions in Minkowski space

Abstract

Let S be a compact, orientable surface of hyperbolic type. Let $(k_+,k_-)$ be a pair of negative numbers and let $(g_+, g_-)$ be a pair of marked metrics over S of constant curvature equal to $k_+$ and $k_-$ respectively. Using a functional introduced by Bonsante, Mondello and Schlenker, we show that there exists a unique affine deformation $\Gamma :=(\rho ,\tau )$ of a Fuchsian group such that $(S,g_+)$ and $(S, g_-)$ embed isometrically as locally strictly convex Cauchy surfaces in the future and past complete components respectively of the quotient by $\Gamma$ of an open subset $\Omega$ of Minkowski space. Such quotients are known as Globally Hyperbolic, Maximal, Cauchy compact Minkowski spacetimes and are naturally dual to the half-pipe spaces introduced by Danciger. When translated into this latter framework, our result states that there exists a unique, marked, quasi-Fuchsian half-pipe space in which $(S, g_+)$ and $(S, g_-)$ are realised as the third fundamental forms of future- and past-oriented, locally strictly convex graphs.