Burns–Katok marked length spectrum rigidity conjecture

Let MM be a smooth nn-dimensional closed manifold such that the space of Anosov metrics MAnosov(M)\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{Anosov}}(M) is nonempty. The marked length spectrum assigns to each isometry class its marked length function, giving a map

L:MAnosov(C).L: \mathbb{M}_{\mathrm{Anosov}} \to \ell^\infty(\mathcal{C}).

Burns–Katok conjecture. The marked length spectrum map LL is injective.

This conjecture asserts that the marked lengths of closed geodesics determine an Anosov metric up to an isometry isotopic to the identity. It is a central rigidity problem, known in important special cases but open in the stated generality.

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Primary source

Mihajlo Cekić and Thibault Lefeuvre, “Generic injectivity of the X-ray transform”, arXiv:2107.05119 (2024).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2011.06403, arXiv:1806.04218.

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