Central splitting of manifolds with no conjugate points

DOI10.2140/PJM.2020.306.95MaRDI QIDQ2189532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Dibble

Publication date 16 June 2020

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04442

zbMATH Keywords

Busemann functioncenter theoremno conjugate pointsno focal points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Each compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points admits a family of functions whose integrals vanish exactly when central Busemann functions split linearly. These functions vanish when all central Busemann functions are sub- or superharmonic. When central Busemann functions are convex or concave, they must be totally geodesic. These yield generalizations of the splitting theorems of O'Sullivan and Eberlein for manifolds with no focal points and, respectively, nonpositive curvature.

Review text

Compact Riemannian manifolds have been studied in several classes. Several authors study compact Riemannian with no conjugate points [\textit{D. Burago,} and \textit{S. Ivanov}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 4, 259--269 (1994; Zbl 0808.53038); \textit{J. J. O'Sullivan}, Math. Ann. 210, 295--311 (1974; Zbl 0273.53037); \textit{J. A. Wolf}, Ill. J. Math. 8, 14--18 (1964; Zbl 0126.17702); \textit{P. Eberlein}, Math. Ann. 260, 23--29 (1982; Zbl 0468.57014); \textit{R. Gulliver}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 210, 185--201 (1975; Zbl 0281.58008)]. The principal objective in this paper is the generalizations of the splitting theorems of O'Sullivan and Eberlein for manifolds with no focal points and, respectively, nonpositive curvature.

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