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Rigidity of locally homogeneous metrics of negative curvature on the leaves of a foliation

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We consider the relationship between diffeomorphism and leafwise isometry for foliations whose leaves are locally homogeneous Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature.

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  1. Centre de Mathématiques, Ecole Polytechnique, Unité Associée no 169 du CNRS, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    P. Pansu

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

    Robert J. Zimmer

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Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8301882.

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Pansu, P., Zimmer, R.J. Rigidity of locally homogeneous metrics of negative curvature on the leaves of a foliation. Israel J. Math. 68, 56–62 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764968

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