On the growth rate of geodesic chords

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2020.101668zbMATH Open1467.53047arXiv2004.04654OpenAlexW3052082420WikidataQ115354726 ScholiaQ115354726MaRDI QIDQ1995633FDOQ1995633

Simon Allais

Publication date: 24 February 2021

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

first Betti numbermin-maxforward complete Finsler manifoldgeodesic chords

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)

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