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Higher rank rigidity for Berwald spaces

Dynamical Systems 2020-06-10 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We generalize the higher rank rigidity theorem to a class of Finsler spaces, i.e. Berwald spaces. More precisely, we prove that a complete connected Berwald space of finite volume and bounded nonpositive flag curvature with rank at least 22 whose universal cover is irreducible, is a locally symmetric space or a locally Minkowski space.

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@article{arxiv.1510.04476,
  title  = {Higher rank rigidity for Berwald spaces},
  author = {Weisheng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04476},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages

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