Existence results for closed Finsler geodesics via spherical complexities

DOI10.1007/S00526-020-01807-4MaRDI QIDQ2204073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Mescher

Publication date 2 October 2020

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07259

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsFinsler metricsLusternik-Schnirelmann approachpinching.spherical complexitiestopological methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to functional-differential equations (34K13) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We apply topological methods and a Lusternik-Schnirelmann-type approach to prove existence results for closed geodesics of Finsler metrics on spheres and projective spaces. The main tool in the proofs are spherical complexities, which have been introduced in earlier work of the author. Using them, we show how pinching conditions and inequalities between a Finsler metric and a globally symmetric metric yield the existence of multiple closed geodesics as well as upper bounds on their lengths.

Review text

The authors apply topological methods and a Lusternik-Schnirelmann-type approach to prove existence results for closed geodesics of Finsler metrics on spheres and on projective spaces. The proofs use spherical complexities, which have been introduced in earlier work of the author. It is shown that pinching conditions and inequalities between a Finsler metric and a globally symmetric metric yield the existence of multiple closed geodesics, as well as upper bounds on their lengths.

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