On the growth rate of geodesic chords

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2020.101668MaRDI QIDQ1995633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Simon Allais

Publication date 24 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04654

zbMATH Keywords

first Betti numberforward complete Finsler manifoldgeodesic chordsmin-max

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We show that every forward complete Finsler manifold of infinite fundamental group and not homotopy-equivalent to $S^1$ has infinitely many geometrically distinct geodesics joining any given pair of points $p$ and $q$. In the special case in which $$ and $M$ is closed, the number of geometrically distinct geodesics between two points grows at least logarithmically.

Review text

On a forward complete Finsler manifold \(M\), the number \(n(\ell, p,q)\), of geometrically distinct geodesics between \(p\) and \(q\), of length less or equal to \(\ell\), is investigated. It is shown that every forward complete Finsler manifold, of infinite fundamental group and not homotopy-equivalent to \(S^1\), has infinitely many geometrically distinct geodesics joining any given pair of points \(p\) and \(q\) \[ n(\ell, p, q)\to \infty, \ \ \text{as} \ \ \ell \to \infty , \ \ \forall \ p,q\in M. \] In a special case, when the first Betti number \(\beta_1(M; \mathbb Z) \geq 1\) and \(M\) is closed, the number of geometrically distinct geodesics between two points grows at least logarithmically. Without the closedness assumption \[ n(\ell, p, q)\geq \frac{\log(\log \ell)}{2\log 2}+b(q), \ \ \forall\ \ell>0, \ p,q\in M, \] for some continuous function \(b:M\to \mathbb R\).

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