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Marked length rigidity for one dimensional spaces

Metric Geometry 2019-11-21 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that for compact, non-contractible, one dimensional geodesic spaces, a version of the marked length spectrum conjecture holds. For a compact one dimensional geodesic space X, we define a subspace Conv(X). When X is non-contractible, we show that X deformation retracts to Conv(X). If two such spaces X, Y have the same marked length spectrum, we prove that Conv(X) and Conv(Y) are isometric to each other.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.3709,
  title  = {Marked length rigidity for one dimensional spaces},
  author = {David Constantine and Jean-François Lafont},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3709},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

39 pages, 6 figures. Corrected and substantially expanded version of arXiv:math/0301309

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