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We formulate and prove a foliated version of a theorem of Besson, Courtois, and Gallot establishing the minimal entropy rigidity of negatively curved locally symmetric spaces. One corollary is a foliated version of Mostow’s rigidity theorem.
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Boland, J., Connell, C. Minimal entropy rigidity for foliations of compact spaces. Isr. J. Math. 128, 221–246 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02785426
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