Diastatic entropy and rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds

Abstract

Let $f: Y \rightarrow X$ be a continuous map between a compact real analytic Kähler manifold $(Y,g)$ and a compact complex {hyperbolic manifold} $(X,g_0)$. In this paper we give a lower bound of the diastatic entropy of $(Y,g)$ in terms of the diastatic entropy of $(X,g_0)$ and the degree of $f$. When the lower bound is attained we get geometric rigidity theorems for the diastatic entropy analogous to the ones obtained by G. Besson, G. Courtois and S. Gallot [2] for the volume entropy. As a corollary, when $X=Y$, we show that the minimal diastatic entropy is achieved if and only if $g$ is holomorphically or anti-holomorphically isometric to the hyperbolic metric $g_0$.