A Zoll counterexample to a geodesic length conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0708-9zbMATH Open1201.53050arXiv0711.1229OpenAlexW1966230008WikidataQ123249801 ScholiaQ123249801MaRDI QIDQ1028515FDOQ1028515

Christopher B. Croke, F. Balacheff, Mikhail G. Katz

Publication date: 6 July 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a counterexample to a conjectured inequality L<2D, relating the diameter D and the least length L of a nontrivial closed geodesic, for a Riemannian metric on the 2-sphere. The construction relies on Guillemin's theorem concerning the existence of Zoll surfaces integrating an arbitrary infinitesimal odd deformation of the round metric. Thus the round metric is not optimal for the ratio L/D.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1229

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zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsphere Guillemin deformationZoll surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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