The length spectrum of a compact constant curvature complex is discrete

DOI10.1007/S10711-006-9065-0MaRDI QIDQ2498433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Noel Brady, Jon McCammond

Publication date 16 August 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-006-9065-0

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesic loopconstant curvature complexlength spectrumMorse-Sard theoremreal semi-algebraic set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

The authors consider the length spectrum for the set of closed geodesic loops in constant curvature complex. The proposition formulated in the title of the paper is proven. This supplements the result on p. 122 of the book \textit{M. R. Bridson} and \textit{A. Haefliger} [Metric spaces of non-positive curvature. [Grundlehren der Math. Wiss. 319 (Berlin: Springer) (1999; Zbl 0988.53001)] stating the discreteness of the length spectrum for the set of geodesics connecting two fixed points. The result follows from the Morse-Sard theorem and the fact that every real semi-algebraic set has a finite number of components.

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