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Moebius rigidity for compact deformations of negatively curved manifolds

Differential Geometry 2018-12-13 v1

Abstract

Let (X,g0)(X, g_0) be a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvatures Kg0K_{g_0} satisfying b2Kg01-b^2 \leq K_{g_0} \leq -1 for some b1b \geq 1. Let g1g_1 be a Riemannian metric on XX such that g1=g0g_1 = g_0 outside a compact in XX, and with sectional curvatures Kg1K_{g_1} satisfying Kg11K_{g_1} \leq -1. The identity map id:(X,g0)(X,g1)id : (X, g_0) \to (X, g_1) is bi-Lipschitz, and hence induces a homeomorphism between the boundaries at infinity of (X,g0)(X, g_0) and (X,g1)(X, g_1), which we denote by id^g0,g1:g0Xg1X\hat{id}_{g_0, g_1} : \partial_{g_0} X \to \partial_{g_1} X. We show that if the boundary map id^g0,g1\hat{id}_{g_0, g_1} is Moebius (i.e. preserves cross-ratios), then it extends to an isometry F:(X,g0)(X,g1)F : (X, g_0) \to (X, g_1).

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@article{arxiv.1812.04888,
  title  = {Moebius rigidity for compact deformations of negatively curved manifolds},
  author = {Kingshook Biswas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04888},
  year   = {2018}
}