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Given a closed hyperbolic Riemannian surface, the aim of the present paper is to describe an explicit construction of smooth deformations of the hyperbolic metric into Finsler metrics that are not Riemannian and whose properties are such that the classical Riemannian results about entropy rigidity, marked length spectrum rigidity and boundary rigidity all fail to extend to the Finsler category.
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Colbois, B., Newberger, F. & Verovic, P. Some smooth Finsler deformations of hyperbolic surfaces. Ann Glob Anal Geom 35, 191–226 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-008-9130-z
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