Closed characteristics on compact convex hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) (Q1607725): Difference between revisions

For any given compact \(C^2\) hypersurface \(\Sigma\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) bounding a strictly convex set with nonempty interior, in this paper an invariant \(\rho_n(\Sigma)\) is defined satisfying \(\rho_n(\Sigma)\geq [n/2]+1\), where \([a]\) denotes the greatest integer which is not greater than \(a\in \mathbb{R}\). The following results are proved. There always exist at least \(\rho_n(\Sigma)\) geometrically distinct closed characteristics on \(\Sigma\). If all the geometrically distinct closed characteristics on \(\Sigma\) are nondegenerate, then \(\rho_n(\Sigma)\geq n\). If the total number of geometrically distinct closed characteristics on \(\Sigma\) is finite, there exists among them at least one elliptic one, and there exist at least \(\rho_n(\Sigma)-1\) of them possessing irrational mean indices. If this total number is at most \(2\rho_n(\Sigma)-2\), there exist at least two elliptic ones among them.