Geometric rigidity of conformal matrices

We provide a geometric rigidity estimate a la Friesecke-James-Muller for conformal matrices. Namely, we replace SO(n) by a arbitrary compact subset of conformal matrices, bounded away from 0 and invariant under SO(n), and rigid motions by Mobius transformations.

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