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Smooth rigidity for higher dimensional contact Anosov flows

Dynamical Systems 2023-08-30 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We apply the matching functions technique in the setting of contact Anosov flows which satisfy a bunching assumption. This allows us to generalize the 3-dimensional rigidity result of Feldman-Ornstein~\cite{FO}. Namely, we show that if two such Anosov flows are C0C^0 conjugate then they are CrC^{r}, conjugate for some r[1,2)r\in[1,2) or even CC^\infty conjugate under some additional assumptions. This, for example, applies to 1/41/4-pinched geodesic flows on compact Riemannian manifolds of negative sectional curvature. We can also use our result to recover Hamendst\"adt's marked length spectrum rigidity result for real hyperbolic manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2206.06449,
  title  = {Smooth rigidity for higher dimensional contact Anosov flows},
  author = {Andrey Gogolev and Federico Rodriguez Hertz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.06449},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages, V2: improvements thanks to the referee report

R2 v1 2026-06-24T11:49:49.610Z