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These notes are a companion to the preceding paper by Geoffrey Mess, “Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature”. Mess’ paper was written nearly 20 years ago and so we hope these notes will be useful as a guide to the literature that has appeared in the intervening years.
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Lars Andersson was supported in part by the NSF, contract no. DMS 0407732 and Thierry Barbot was supported by CNRS, ACI “Structures géométriques et Trous Noirs”.
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Andersson, L., Barbot, T., Benedetti, R. et al. Notes on a paper of Mess. Geom Dedicata 126, 47–70 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-007-9164-6
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