Closed geodesics on connected sums and 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1649953350zbMATH Open1494.53048arXiv1809.04588OpenAlexW2892237837WikidataQ115163944 ScholiaQ115163944MaRDI QIDQ2135665FDOQ2135665

Authors: Hans-Bert Rademacher, I. A. Taimanov 

Publication date: 9 May 2022

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the asymptotics of the number N(t) of geometrically distinct closed geodesics of a Riemannian or Finsler metric on a connected sum of two compact manifolds of dimension at least three with non-trivial fundamental groups and apply this result to the prime decomposition of a three-manifold. In particular we show that the function N(t) grows at least like the prime numbers on a compact 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group. It follows that a generic Riemannian metric on a compact 3-manifold has infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics. We also consider the case of a connected sum of a compact manifold with positive first Betti number and a simply-connected manifold which is not homeomorphic to a sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04588

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zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicconjugacy classesexponential growthfree product of groupsconnected sum of manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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