Isometry-invariant geodesics and the fundamental group (Q2354327): Difference between revisions

It is proved that on closed Riemannian manifolds whose fundamental group is non-cyclic infinite abelian, any isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. Then, it is conjectured that the result remains true if the fundamental group is infinite cyclic. As well, there are formulated both a generalization of the isometry-invariant geodesics problem, and a generalization of the celebrated Weinstein conjecture: on a closed contact manifold with a selected contact form, any strict contactomorphism that is contact-isotopic to the identity possesses an invariant Reeb orbit.