Multiple closed geodesics on Finsler 3-dimensional sphere

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2025.110863MaRDI QIDQ7021373zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Huagui Duan, Zihao Qi

Publication date 28 February 2025

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JFA.2025.110863

zbMATH Keywords

3-dimensional sphereclosed geodesicsFinsler metricsMorse index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Finding upper and lower bounds for the number of prime closed geodesics on a Riemannian or Finslerian manifold is a difficult problem with various interesting approaches in many cases. In the Finslerian context, phenomena different from the Riemannian case might occur due the the irreversibility of the geodesics.\N\NThe authors prove that for a bumpy Finsler metric on \(S^3\) (which is irreversible with all closed geodesics non-degenerate), whose all prime closed geodesics have non-zero Morse index, the minimum number of prime closed geodesics is four. This proves the the conjecture in [\textit{D. V. Anosov}, Transl., Ser. 2, Am. Math. Soc. 109, 81--85 (1977; Zbl 0368.53045)] for bumpy Finsler metrics on \(S^3\) under the assumption of non-zero index.

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