The cut loci on ellipsoids and certain Liouville manifolds (Q623258)

The authors construct a class of Riemannian metrics with integrable geodesic flow on the sphere. Their class of metrics depends on one function of one variable, and includes the metrics of ellipsoids with distinct axes. They compute explicitly the cut locus of every point for any of these metrics. The generic point, with any one of their metrics, has as cut locus a disk of codimension one. Those points which do not have such a cut locus form a codimension 2 subset, and each such point has as cut locus a disk of codimension 2.