Local and infinitesimal rigidity of simply connected negatively curved manifolds

DOI10.5802/AIF.3070MaRDI QIDQ506599zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kingshook Biswas

Publication date 1 February 2017

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04974, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIF_2016__66_6_2507_0/

zbMATH Keywords

cross-ratio Möbius map negatively curved manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Let

(X, g_{0})

be a simply connected, complete, negatively curved Riemannian manifold. We prove local and infinitesimal rigidity results for compactly supported deformations of the metric

g_{0}

. For any negatively curved metric

g

equal to

g_{0}

outside a compact, the identity map of

X

induces a natural boundary map between the boundaries at infinity of

X

with respect to

g_{0}

and

g

. We show that if

(g_{t})

is a smooth 1-parameter family of negatively curved metrics all equal to

g_{0}

outside a fixed compact then if all the boundary maps (between the boundaries of

X

with respect to

g_{0}

and

g_{t}

) are Moebius then the metrics

g_{t}

are all isometric to

g_{0}

. We also show that given a compact

K

in

X

, there is a neighbourhood of

g_{0}

in the

C^{2, a l p h a}

topology such that for any negatively curved metric

g

in this neighbourhood which is equal to

g_{0}

outside

K

, if the boundary map is Moebius and the

g_{0}

and

g

volumes of

K

agree then

g

is isometric to

g_{0}

.

Review text

Each connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by \(-1\) is a~CAT(\(-1\)) space and the geodesic boundary is well defined and equal to the boundary at infinity given by Gromov product. The main goal of this paper is to present the collection of results devoted to relations between deformation of the Riemannian tensor and the geodesic boundary. More precisely, the author proves the following: Theorem 1.1. Let \((X, g_0)\) be a~complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvatures bounded above by \(-1\). Let \((g_t)_{0\leq t\leq 1}\) be a~\(1\)-parameter family of Riemannian metrics on \(X\) such that: (1) The symmetric \((0, 2)\)-tensors \(g_t - g_0\), \(0 \leq t \leq 1\) are compactly supported with supports contained in a~fixed compact \(C \subset X\). (2) The sectional curvatures of the metrics \(g_t\), \(0 \leq t \leq 1\) are bounded above by \(-1\). (3) The metrics \(g_t\), \(0 \leq t \leq 1\) depend smoothly on the parameter \(t\). (4) All the boundary maps \(\widehat{\mathrm{id}}_{g_0,g_t} : \partial_{g_0}X \to \partial_{g_t}X\), \(0 \leq t \leq 1\), are Moebius. Then there is a \(1\)-parameter family of diffeomorphisms \(f_t: X \to X\) such that \(f_t^* g_t = g_0\). Moreover, there is a~compact \(K \subset X\) such that \(f_t = \mathrm{id}_X\) on \(X - K\) for \(0 \leq t \leq 1\).

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