-invariant and a problem of Bérard-Bergery on the existence of closed geodesics

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.12.019MaRDI QIDQ2445950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zizhou Tang, Weiping Zhang

Publication date 15 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2792

zbMATH Keywords

Eells-Kuiper projective plane\(\eta\) invariant\(\mathrm{SC}^p\) structure\(\mu\) invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Geometries with differentiable structure (51H25)

Abstract: We use the $eta$-invariant of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer to compute the Eells-Kuiper invariant for the Eells-Kuiper quaternionic projective plane. By combining with a known result of B'erard-Bergery, it shows that every Eells-Kuiper quaternionic projective plane carries a Riemannian metric such that all geodesics passing through a certain point are simply closed and of the same length.

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