Geodesic behavior for Finsler metrics of constant positive flag curvature on S^2

DOI10.4310/JDG/1609902015MaRDI QIDQ2218653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. Foulon, S. V. Ivanov, Wolfgang Ziller, Robert L. Bryant, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 15 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03736, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1609902015

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricflag curvaturegeodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: We study non-reversible Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature 1 on S^2 and show that the geodesic flow of every such metric is conjugate to that of one of Katok's examples, which form a 1-parameter family. In particular, the length of the shortest closed geodesic is a complete invariant of the geodesic flow. We also show, in any dimension, that the geodesic flow of a Finsler metrics with constant positive flag curvature is completely integrable. Finally, we give an example of a Finsler metric on~$S^2$ with positive flag curvature such that no two closed geodesics intersect and show that this is not possible when the metric is reversible or have constant flag curvature

Review text

The paper under review deals with the study of Finsler metrics of constant positive flag curvature on \(S^2\). Some interesting results for Finsler metrics on \(S^2\) with constant flag curvature 1 are obtained. A complete classification of the geodesic flows of Finsler metrics on \(S^2\) with constant flag curvature is given. Important results in dimensions \(n\geq 2\) are found.

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