Local extremality of the Calabi-Croke sphere for the length of the shortest closed geodesic

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDQ045zbMATH Open1208.53052arXiv0907.2223OpenAlexW3105588288MaRDI QIDQ3066393FDOQ3066393

Stéphane Sabourau

Publication date: 10 January 2011

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, F. Balacheff proved that the Calabi-Croke sphere made of two flat 1-unit-side equilateral triangles glued along their boundaries is a local extremum for the length of the shortest closed geodesic among the Riemannian spheres with conical singularities of fixed area. We give an alternative proof of this theorem, which does not make use of the uniformization theorem, and extend the result to Finsler metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2223

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsFinsler metricsconical singularitiesRiemannian spheresCalabi-Croke sphereLipschitz distance topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Critical metrics (58E11) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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