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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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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA

    Lars Andersson

  2. Albert Einstein Institute, Am Mühlenberg 1, 144476, Potsdam, Germany

    Lars Andersson

  3. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5669, 46 Allée D’Italie, Lyon, 69364, France

    Thierry Barbot

  4. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo, 5, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Riccardo Benedetti & Francesco Bonsante

  5. Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    William M. Goldman

  6. Topologie et Dynamique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay (Cedex), 91405, France

    François Labourie

  7. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA

    Kevin P. Scannell

  8. Institut de Mathématiques, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 9, 31062, France

    Jean-Marc Schlenker

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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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