A counterexample to marked length spectrum semi-rigidity

Abstract

Given a closed orientable negatively curved Riemannian surface $(M,g)$, we show how to construct a perturbation $(M,g^{\prime })$ such that each closed geodesic becomes longer, and yet there is no diffeomorphism $f:(M,g^{\prime })\to (M,g)$ which contracts every tangent vector.

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