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We prove C 0-conjugacy rigidity of any flat cylinder among two different classes of metrics on the cylinder, namely among the class of rotationally symmetric metrics and among the class of metrics without conjugate points.
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ARAVINDA, C.S., GURURAJA, H.A. On certain geodesic conjugacies of flat cylinders. Proc Math Sci 127, 517–523 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12044-017-0343-6
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