Critical point theory of symmetric functions and closed geodesics

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(96)00032-0MaRDI QIDQ1356795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 13 October 1997

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-2245(96)00032-0

closed geodesics equivariant critical point theory free loop space

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Loop spaces (55P35) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Variational aspects of group actions in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E40)

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The authors consider compact Riemannian manifolds which allow a map \(F\) of a sphere or a projective space into the manifold, which is injective on the homology level. Denote by \(l_{max}\) the maximal length of the image of a circle under \(F\) and by \(l_{min}\) the length of the shortest closed geodesic. In terms of the integer part \(p\) of the quotient \(l_{max}/l_{min}\) the authors obtain lower bounds for the number of geometrically distinct closed geodesics of length \(\leq l_{max}\) (which are called short closed geodesics). For certain values of \(p\) and certain topological types this gives an improvement of known results.

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