Rigidity of singular de-Sitter tori with respect to their lightlike bi-foliation

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a natural notion of constant curvature Lorentzian surfaces with conical singularities, and provide a large class of examples of such structures. We moreover initiate the study of their global rigidity, by proving that de-Sitter tori with a single singularity of a fixed angle are determined by the topological equivalence class of their lightlike bi-foliation. While this is reminiscent of Troyanov's uniformization results on Riemannian surfaces with conical singularities, the rigidity will come from topological dynamics in the Lorentzian case.