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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 10:00am

Haomin Wen

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4C2

Scattering rigidity of a Riemannian manifold allows one to tell the metric of a manifold with boundary by looking at the directions of geodesics at the boundary. Lens rigidity allows one to tell the metric of a manifold with boundary from the same information plus the length of geodesics. There are a variety of results about lens rigidity but very little is known for scattering rigidity. I will discuss the subtle difference between these two types of rigidities and prove that they are equivalent for two-dimensional SGM (no conjugate points and no trapped geodesics) manifolds with boundaries.