Monday, 6 July 2009

alexandrov geometry - Are isometries the only geodesic preserving maps in a CAT(0)-space?

Given any CAT(0) space X, we can define a map s:XtimesXtimes[0;1]rightarrowX, such that s(x,y,) is the constant speed geodesic from x to y . Any isometry f of X is compatible with that map in the sense, that s(f(x),f(y),t)=f(s(x,y,t)). Then one can ask, whether any self-homeomorphism of X, which is compatible with s in the upper sense is already a isometry.



This is clearly wrong for X=mathbbRn, as all affine maps are compatible with s. So the question is, whether these are the only examples.



For example I think I can show, that the n-dimensional hyperbolic space (nge2) is rigid in that sense.



EDIT: Due to the big amout of counterexamples one could better ask the following question:



Are the spaces mathbbRn the only spaces, which have self homeomorphisms compatible with s (in the upper sense), that are not self-similarities ?

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