On the closed geodesics problem

DOI10.11606/ISSN.2316-9028.V2I2P223-237MaRDI QIDQ2390103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francesco Mercuri, Paolo Piccione

Publication date 20 July 2009

Published in São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9028.v2i2p223-237

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsFinsler manifoldsRiemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Review text

The authors review and discuss the following `closed geodesic problem': find a (sharp) lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct closed geodesics on a compact Riemannian manifold. A celebrated result of Gromoll and Meyer states that the number of closed geodesics on a simply connected Riemannian manifold is infinite, if the topology of the manifold is `sufficiently complicated'. In the paper some immediate generalizations of the problem to semi-Riemannian and Finsler manifolds is also discussed.

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