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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 2003-006

Two dimensional compact simple Riemannian manifolds are boundary distance rigid

Leonid Pestov and Gunther Uhlmann

We prove that knowing the lengths of geodesics joining points of the boundary of a two-dimensional, compact, simple Riemannian manifold with boundary, we can determine uniquely the Riemannian metric up to the natural obstruction.