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Boundary and Lens Rigidity of Lorentzian Surfaces
Author(s):
Lars
Andersson;
Mattias
Dahl;
Ralph
Howard
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
348
(1996),
2307-2329.
MSC (1991):
Primary 53C50
MathSciNet review:
1363008
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Let be a Lorentzian metric on the plane that agrees with the standard metric outside a compact set and so that there are no conjugate points along any time-like geodesic of . Then and are isometric. Further, if and are two dimensional compact time oriented Lorentzian manifolds with space--like boundaries and so that all time-like geodesics of maximize the distances between their points and and are ``boundary isometric'', then there is a conformal diffeomorphism between and and they have the same areas. Similar results hold in higher dimensions under an extra assumption on the volumes of the manifolds.
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Lars
Andersson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Email:
larsa@math.kth.se
Mattias
Dahl
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Email:
dahl@math.kth.se
Ralph
Howard
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Email:
howard@math.sc.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01688-1
PII:
S 0002-9947(96)01688-1
Received by editor(s):
January 18, 1995
Additional Notes:
Lars Andersson supported in part by the Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council (SNSRC), contract no. F-FU 4873-307. Mattias Dahl supported in part by the Wallenberg foundation. Ralph Howard supported in part by the SNSRC, contract no. R-RA 4873-306, the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord foundation.
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1996,
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