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arxiv: 1204.5308 · v6 · pith:LIHUXIERnew · submitted 2012-04-24 · 🧮 math.GT · math-ph· math.MP

Topological tameness of Margulis spacetimes

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keywords margulisfreespacetimesgroupholonomymanifoldmathbbspacetime
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We show that Margulis spacetimes without parabolic holonomy are topologically tame. A Margulis spacetime is the quotient of the $3$-dimensional Minkowski space by a free proper isometric action of the free group of rank $\geq 2$. We will use our particular point of view that the Margulis spacetime is a manifold-with-boundary with an $\mathbb{R} P^3$-structure in an essential way. The basic tools are a bordification by a closed $\mathbb{R} P^2$-manifold with free holonomy group, and the work of Goldman, Labourie, and Margulis on geodesics in the Margulis spacetimes and $3$-manifold topology.

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