Focal rigidity of flat tori

DOI10.1590/S0001-37652011005000037MaRDI QIDQ4915054zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ferry H. Kwakkel, M. Martens, Mauricio Matos Peixoto

Publication date 16 April 2013

Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5541

zbMATH Keywords

focal decompositionfocusing of geodesicsRiemannian manifoldsrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Given a closed Riemannian manifold (M, g), there is a partition Sigma_i of its tangent bundle TM called the focal decomposition. The sets Sigma_i are closely associated to focusing of geodesics of (M, g), i.e. to the situation where there are exactly i geodesic arcs of the same length joining points p and q in M. In this note, we study the topological structure of the focal decomposition of a closed Riemannian manifold and its relation with the metric structure of the manifold. Our main result is that the flat n-tori are focally rigid, in the sense that if two flat tori are focally equivalent, then the tori are isometric up to rescaling.

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