Support rigidity conjecture for Liouville currents of flat metrics

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Let SS be the underlying surface and let Flat(S)\mathrm{Flat}(S) denote the space of flat metrics on SS. For φ∈Flat(S)\varphi\in\mathrm{Flat}(S), let LφL_{\varphi} be its Liouville geodesic current and let supp(Lφ)\mathrm{supp}(L_{\varphi}) denote its support. Scaling a metric by a>0a>0 preserves this support, and affine deformations arising from SL2(R)SL_2(\mathbb R) actions on metrics defined by holomorphic quadratic differentials also preserve it. Support rigidity conjecture. Given φ1,φ2∈Flat(S)\varphi_1,\varphi_2\in\mathrm{Flat}(S), if

supp(Lφ1)=supp(Lφ2),\mathrm{supp}(L_{\varphi_1})=\mathrm{supp}(L_{\varphi_2}),

then there exists an affine map f ⁣:(S,φ1)→(S,φ2)f\colon(S,\varphi_1)\to(S,\varphi_2) isotopic to the identity. Equivalently, up to this affine ambiguity, the support of the Liouville current determines the flat metric. The paper proves that the full marked length spectrum determines a flat metric, and studies how much information is already contained in the support of its Liouville current. The conjecture asserts that the scaling and affine deformations described in the open questions are the only possible ambiguities.

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Anja Bankovic and Christopher J. Leininger, “Marked length spectral rigidity for flat metrics”, arXiv:1504.01159 (2015).

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