Boundary rigidity, and non-rigidity, of projective structures

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Main Authors: Borthwick, Jack, Kamran, Niky
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Published: 2023
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author Borthwick, Jack
Kamran, Niky
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Kamran, Niky
contents We investigate the property of boundary rigidity for the projective structures associated to torsion-free affine connections on connected analytic manifolds with boundary. We show that these structures are generically boundary rigid, meaning that any automorphism of a generic projective structure that restricts to the identity on the boundary must itself be the identity. However, and in contrast with what happens for example for conformal structures, we show that there exist projective structures which are not boundary rigid. We characterise these non-rigid structures by the vanishing of a certain local projective invariant of the boundary.
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spellingShingle Boundary rigidity, and non-rigidity, of projective structures
Borthwick, Jack
Kamran, Niky
Differential Geometry
We investigate the property of boundary rigidity for the projective structures associated to torsion-free affine connections on connected analytic manifolds with boundary. We show that these structures are generically boundary rigid, meaning that any automorphism of a generic projective structure that restricts to the identity on the boundary must itself be the identity. However, and in contrast with what happens for example for conformal structures, we show that there exist projective structures which are not boundary rigid. We characterise these non-rigid structures by the vanishing of a certain local projective invariant of the boundary.
title Boundary rigidity, and non-rigidity, of projective structures
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02266