Closed geodesics and volume growth of open manifolds with sectional curvature bounded from below

DOI10.1007/S11401-013-0813-9MaRDI QIDQ2448461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi Shi, Guanghan Li, Chuanxi Wu

Publication date 30 April 2014

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11401-013-0813-9

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicscurvature bounded from belownonnegative curvaturesectional curvaturevolume growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Review text

The authors study complete, noncompact Riemannian manifolds \(M\) with sectional curvature bounded from below by a nonnegative constant. They prove that, if \(M\) is such a manifold and \(N \subset M\) a compact codimension \(k\) submanifold without boundary, then the tube of radius \(r\) about \(N\) has volume at most the product of the volume of \(N\) and the volume of the Euclidean \(k\)-ball of radius \(r\). They consider the ratio \(\mu(m,r)={\text{Vol} B_M(m,r)}/{\text{Vol} B_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}(0,r)}\). Let \[ \mu(m)=\limsup_{r \to \infty}\mu(m,r) \] and let \(\mu(M)=\inf_{m \in M} \mu(m)\). They prove that \(\mu(M)\) never exceeds the length of any closed geodesic, and reaches the length of a closed geodesic just when \(M=S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{n-1}\) with flat metric. Finally, for any complete Riemannian manifold \(M\) with sectional curvature bounded by a negative constant, the authors prove a lower bound on the lengths of closed geodesics. They make use of the Cheeger-Gromoll soul theorem, and the Bishop-Gromov and Rauch comparison theorems.

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