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arxiv: 1112.5788 · v2 · pith:BMIBDB7Xnew · submitted 2011-12-25 · 🧮 math.DG · math.GT

Focal rigidity of hyperbolic surfaces

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In this note, we consider the rigidity of the focal decomposition of closed hyperbolic surfaces. We show that, generically, the focal decomposition of a closed hyperbolic surface does not allow for non-trivial topological deformations, without changing the hyperbolic structure of the surface. By classical rigidity theory this is also true in dimension $n \geq 3$. Our current result extends a previous result that flat tori in dimension $n \geq 2$ that are focally equivalent are isometric modulo rescaling.

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