Focal rigidity of hyperbolic surfaces
Differential Geometry
2014-05-06 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In this note, we consider the rigidity of the focal decomposition of closed hyperbolic surfaces. We show that, generically, the focal decomposition of a closed hyperbolic surface does not allow for non-trivial topological deformations, without changing the hyperbolic structure of the surface. By classical rigidity theory this is also true in dimension . Our current result extends a previous result that flat tori in dimension that are focally equivalent are isometric modulo rescaling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1112.5788,
title = {Focal rigidity of hyperbolic surfaces},
author = {Ferry Kwakkel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5788},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Published in Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica, Volumen 37, 2012, 149-159, 11 pages