Existence and nonexistence of half-geodesics on S^2

DOI10.1090/PROC/12918zbMATH Open1356.53047arXiv1408.6216OpenAlexW2342461520MaRDI QIDQ2802125FDOQ2802125

Ian M. Adelstein

Publication date: 25 April 2016

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study half-geodesics, those closed geodesics that minimize on any subinterval of length $l(gamma)/2$. For each nonnegative integer $n$, we construct Riemannian manifolds diffeomorphic to $S^2$ admitting exactly $n$ half-geodesics. Additionally, we construct a sequence of Riemannian manifolds, each of which is diffeomorphic to $S^2$ and admits no half-geodesics, yet which converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a limit space with infinitely many half-geodesics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6216

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsspherehalf-geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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