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A counterexample to marked length spectrum semi-rigidity

Differential Geometry 2024-10-17 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Given a closed orientable negatively curved Riemannian surface (M,g)(M,g), we show how to construct a perturbation (M,g)(M,g^\prime) such that each closed geodesic becomes longer, and yet there is no diffeomorphism f:(M,g)(M,g)f : (M,g^\prime) \rightarrow (M,g) which contracts every tangent vector.

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@article{arxiv.2309.10882,
  title  = {A counterexample to marked length spectrum semi-rigidity},
  author = {Andrey Gogolev and James Marshall Reber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10882},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: 11 pages, 1 figure, incorporated referee comments

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:26:34.469Z