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Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature

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This paper is unpublished work of Geoffrey Mess written in 1990, which gives a classification of flat and anti-de Sitter domains of dependence in 2+1 dimensions.

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Mess, G. Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature. Geom Dedicata 126, 3–45 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-007-9155-7

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