Cocycles, symplectic structures and intersection (Q1288147)

The marked length spectrum of a closed negatively curved manifold \((M,g)\) is the function \(\rho_M\) which assigns to each conjugacy class in the fundamental group \(\pi_1(M)\) of \(M\) the length of the unique \(g\)-geodesic representing the class. Two homotopy equivalent negatively curved manifolds \(M,N\) have the same marked length spectrum if there is an isomorphism \(\Psi: \pi_1(M)\to \pi_1(N)\) such that \(\rho_N\circ \Psi= \rho_M\). This is equivalent to the existence of a continuous time preserving conjugacy for the geodesic flows for \(M\) and \(N\). Theorem A. If \(M\) and \(N\) are closed negatively curved manifolds with the same marked length spectrum and if the Anosov splitting of \(TT^1M\) is of class \(C^1\), then \(M\) and \(N\) have the same volume. Corollary. If \(M\) has the same marked length spectrum as a closed negatively curved locally symmetric space \(S\), then \(M\) and \(S\) are isometric. Denote by \(\lambda_g\) the Lebesgue-Liouville current of the metric \(g\). Theorem B. Let \((M,g)\), \((N,h)\) be homotopy equivalent closed negatively curved manifolds. If \(\lambda_g= \lambda_h\) and if the Anosov splittings of \(TT^1M\) and \(TT^1N\) are of class \(C^1\), then \(M\) and \(N\) have the same marked length spectrum. Denote by \([\nu]\) the class of a current in the projectivization of the space of geodesic currents. Theorem C. Let \(M\) be a closed surface of genus \(g\geq 2\). If \([\mu_l]= [\nu_l]\) for a positive flip invariant Hölder cohomology class \(l\), then \(l\) is the class of the length cocycle of a metric on \(M\) of constant curvature.