Connecting and closed geodesics of a Kropina metric (Q1983649)

Kropina metrics are homogeneous Lagrangians defined as the ratio of a Riemannian metric and a one-form. They were intruduced by V.K. Kropina in 1961 in the context of Finsler geometry. A Riemannian manifold endowed with a Kropina metric is called a Kropina space. Such spaces appear in general relativity and in ome phyical models. In the works [\textit{K. Burns} and \textit{V. S. Matveev}, ``Open problems and questions about geodesics'', Ergodic Theory Dynam. Syst. 41, No. 3, 641--684 (2021); the first author et al., ``Wind Finslerian structures: from Zermelo's navigation to the causality of spacetimes'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1407.5494}], the cited authors asked if a Kropina metric on a compact manifold admits a closed geodesic. The contribution of this paper is towards this direction proving also results concerning the existence of multiple geodesics between two points.