Local lens rigidity for manifolds of Anosov type
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 $g_0$ is such a metric, then any metric $g$ sufficiently close to $g_0$ and with same lens data is isometric to $g_0$, 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 $2$ and in any dimension, further assuming that the curvature is non-positive.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2204.02476
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2204.02476
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220402476C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems;
- 53C24;
- 35R30