An invitation to rigidity theory

RJ Spatzier - Modern dynamical systems and applications, 2004 - books.google.com
This survey is dedicated to Professor Anatole Katok on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
He has made numerous important contributions to dynamics and ergodic theory proper …

[PDF][PDF] New examples of manifolds with completely integrable geodesic flows

GP Paternain, RJ Spatzier - 1994 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
New Examples of Manifolds with Completely Page 1 ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS 108,
34(y366 (1994) New Examples of Manifolds with Completely Integrable Geodesic Flows GP …

Symplectic reduction and the homogeneous complex Monge–Ampère equation

RM Aguilar - Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, 2001 - Springer
A Riemannian manifold (M^ nn, g) is said to be the center of thecomplex manifold X^ nn if M
is the zero set of a smooth strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function ν 2 on X such that ν …

Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds

K Shankar, R Spatzier, B Wilking - 2005 - projecteuclid.org
In this paper we give a characterization of locally compact rank one symmetric spaces,
which can be seen as an analogue of Ballmann's and Burns and Spatzier's …

Three-manifolds with many flat planes

R Bettiol, B Schmidt - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2018 - ams.org
We discuss the rigidity (or lack thereof) imposed by different notions of having an abundance
of zero curvature planes on a complete Riemannian $3 $-manifold. We prove a rank rigidity …

Minkowski versus Euclidean rank for products of metric spaces

T Foertsch, V Schroeder - 2002 - degruyter.com
We introduce a notion of the Euclidean and the Minkowski rank for arbitrary metric spaces
and we study their behaviour with respect to products. We show that the Minkowski rank is …

2-Frame flow dynamics and hyperbolic rank rigidity in nonpositive curvature

D Constantine - arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1853, 2007 - arxiv.org
This paper presents hyperbolic rank rigidity results for rank 1, nonpositively curved spaces.
Let $ M $ be a compact, rank 1 manifold with nonpositive sectional curvature and suppose …

[PDF][PDF] Rank and symmetry of Riemannian manifolds

JH Eschenburg, C Olmos - 1994 - opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de
Let M be a complete irreducible Riemannian manifold. A k-flat in M is a complete connected
flat totally geodesic immersed submanifold of dimension k. The rank of M is the maximal …

Positively curved manifolds with large spherical rank

B Schmidt, K Shankar, R Spatzier - Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 2016 - ems.press
Rigidity results are obtained for Riemannian d-manifolds with sec> 1 and spherical rank at
least d 2> 0. Conjecturally, all such manifolds are locally isometric to a round sphere or …

Hyperbolic rank rigidity for manifolds of-pinched negative curvature

C Connell, T Nguyen, R Spatzier - Ergodic Theory and Dynamical …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Hyperbolic rank rigidity for manifolds of -pinched negative curvature Page 1 Ergod. Th. & Dynam.
Sys. (2020), 40, 1194–1216 doi:10.1017/etds.2018.113 c Cambridge University Press, 2018 …