Gauthier–Seshadri conjecture on rigidity of Kobayashi isometries

Let MM and MM' be Kobayashi hyperbolic complex manifolds. Let f:(M,KM)(M,KM)f:(M,K_M)\to (M',K_{M'}) be a Kobayashi isometry. If MM and MM' are not biholomorphic to a product of complex manifolds, then Gauthier–Seshadri's conjecture. ff is holomorphic or antiholomorphic.

The conjecture concerns when metric isometries between Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds must respect the complex structure. It is known for certain classes of strongly convex bounded domains, but remains open in the stated generality.

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Anand Chavan, “Rigidity of Kobayashi isometries of a class of 2-dimensional Lempert manifolds”, arXiv:2509.05480 (2026).

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