The Universal Phase Space of AdS3 Gravity

We describe what can be called the "universal" phase space of AdS3 gravity, in which the moduli spaces of globally hyperbolic AdS spacetimes with compact spatial sections, as well as the moduli spaces of multi-black-hole spacetimes are realized as submanifolds. The universal phase space is parametrized by two copies of the Universal Teichm\"uller space T(1) and is obtained from the correspondence between maximal surfaces in AdS3 and quasisymmetric homeomorphisms of the unit circle. We also relate our parametrization to the Chern-Simons formulation of 2+1 gravity and, infinitesimally, to the holographic (Fefferman-Graham) description. In particular, we obtain a relation between the generators of quasiconformal deformations in each T(1) sector and the chiral Brown-Henneaux vector fields. We also relate the charges arising in the holographic description (such as the mass and angular momentum of an AdS3 spacetime) to the periods of the quadratic differentials arising via the Bers embedding of T(1)xT(1). Our construction also yields a symplectic map from T*T(1) to T(1)xT(1) generalizing the well-known Mess map in the compact spatial surface setting.Comment: 41 pages, 2 figures, revised version accepted for publication in Commun.Math.Phy

On the maximal dilatation of quasiconformal minimal Lagrangian extensions

Given a quasisymmetric homeomorphism $\varphi$ of the circle, Bonsante and Schlenker proved the existence and uniqueness of the minimal Lagrangian extension $f_\varphi:\mathbb{H}^2\to\mathbb{H}^2$ to the hyperbolic plane. By previous work of the author, its maximal dilatation satisfies $\log K(f_\varphi)\leq C||\varphi||$, where $||\varphi||$ denotes the cross-ratio norm. We give constraints on the value of an optimal such constant $C$, and discuss possible lower inequalities, by studying two one-parameter families of minimal Lagrangian extensions in terms of maximal dilatation and cross-ratio norm.Comment: 25 pages. Results of Theorem A improved. Several mistakes corrected, Remark 4.9 added, general exposition improve