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Geodesic-preserving bijections of the Thurston geometries

Geometric Topology 2025-10-30 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We completely classify the bijections of the Thurston geometries that preserve geodesics as sets. For Riemannian manifolds that satisfy a certain technical condition, we prove that a totally geodesic subset is a submanifold. We also classify the geodesic-preserving bijections of the Euclidean cylinder S1×R\mathbb{S}^1 \times \mathbb{R} and the bijections of the hyperbolic plane H2\mathbb{H}^2 that preserve constant curvature curves.

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@article{arxiv.2510.25585,
  title  = {Geodesic-preserving bijections of the Thurston geometries},
  author = {Ryan Dickmann and Palani Lideros and Akash Narayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25585},
  year   = {2025}
}

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21 pages, 1 figure