Abstract
We construct explicitly a (12g − 12)-dimensional space P of unconstrained and
independent initial data for ’t Hooft’s polygon model of (2+1) gravity for vacuum
spacetimes with compact genus-g spacelike slices, for any g ≥ 2. Our method relies
on interpreting the boost parameters of the gluing data between flat Minkowskian
patches as the
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