Convergence and the length spectrum

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2007.01.001zbMATH Open1124.53019arXivmath/0602314OpenAlexW2052192537MaRDI QIDQ2370168FDOQ2370168

Authors: Christina Sormani 

Publication date: 22 June 2007

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The author defines and analyzes the $1/k$ length spectra, $L_{1/k}(M)$, whose union, over all $kinNN$ is the classical length spectrum. These new length spectra are shown to converge in the sense that $li{m}_{ioinfty}{L}_{1/k}(M_i)subset0cup{L}_{1/k}(M)$ as $M_{i}oM$ in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. Energy methods are introduced to estimate the shortest element of $L_{1/k}$, as well as a concept called the minimizing index which may be used to estimate the length of the shortest closed geodesic of a simply connected manifold in any dimension. A number of gap theorems are proven, including one for manifolds, $M^n$, with $Riccige(n-1)$ and volume close to $Vol(S^n)$. Many results in this paper hold on compact length spaces in addition to Riemannian manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602314

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zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Hausdorff convergencelength spectrumclosed geodesicinjectivity radiuslength space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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