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Local lens rigidity for manifolds of Anosov type

Differential Geometry 2023-07-24 v2 Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The lens data of a Riemannian manifold with boundary is the collection of lengths of geodesics with endpoints on the boundary together with their incoming and outgoing vectors. We show that negatively-curved Riemannian manifolds with strictly convex boundary are locally lens rigid in the following sense: if g0g_0 is such a metric, then any metric gg sufficiently close to g0g_0 and with same lens data is isometric to g0g_0, up to a boundary-preserving diffeomorphism. More generally, we consider the same problem for a wider class of metrics with strictly convex boundary, called metrics of Anosov type. We prove that the same rigidity result holds within that class in dimension 22 and in any dimension, further assuming that the curvature is non-positive.

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@article{arxiv.2204.02476,
  title  = {Local lens rigidity for manifolds of Anosov type},
  author = {Mihajlo Cekić and Colin Guillarmou and Thibault Lefeuvre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02476},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Last version after revision. Typos corrected and some proofs are more detailed