Marked length spectrum rigidity conjecture
Marked length spectrum rigidity conjecture
Let be a closed manifold, and let and be Riemannian metrics on with negative sectional curvature. For each such metric, let assign to every conjugacy class of the length of its geodesic representative. Marked length spectrum rigidity conjecture. If
then and are isometric, that is, there exists a diffeomorphism such that ; equivalently, the two metrics have the same marked length spectrum if and only if they are isometric. This is a central rigidity problem in the geometry of negatively curved manifolds and is identified as an open problem of Burns and Katok.
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Primary source
Sébastien Alvarez, Ben Lowe and Graham Smith, “Rigidity of the hyperbolic marked energy spectrum and entropy for k-surfaces”, arXiv:2412.14389 (2025).
Additional references
4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2409.20545, arXiv:2211.01865, arXiv:2208.12244.
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