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Lipschitz-Volume rigidity in Alexandrov geometry

Differential Geometry 2015-06-24 v7 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove a Lipschitz-Volume rigidity theorem in Alexandrov geometry, that is, if a 1-Lipschitz map f ⁣:X=⨿XYf\colon X=\amalg X_\ell\to Y between Alexandrov spaces preserves volume, then it is a path isometry and an isometry when restricted to the interior of XX. We furthermore characterize the metric structure on YY with respect to XX when ff is also onto. This implies the converse of Petrunin's Gluing Theorem: if a gluing of two Alexandrov spaces via a bijection between their boundaries produces an Alexandrov space, then the bijection must be an isometry.

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@article{arxiv.1110.5498,
  title  = {Lipschitz-Volume rigidity in Alexandrov geometry},
  author = {Nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5498},
  year   = {2015}
}

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