Marked Length Spectrum Rigidity in Nonpositive Curvature with Singularities
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Combining several previously known arguments, we prove marked length spectrum rigidity for surfaces with nonpositively curved Riemannian metrics away from a finite set of cone-type singularities with cone angles > 2π. With an additional condition, we can weaken the requirement on one metric to ‘no conjugate points.’
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