Splitting lemmas for the Finsler energy functional on the space of H^1-curves

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDW022zbMATH Open1406.58007arXiv1411.3209OpenAlexW2963915068WikidataQ124992720 ScholiaQ124992720MaRDI QIDQ2827962FDOQ2827962

Authors: Guangcun Lu 

Publication date: 24 October 2016

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish the splitting lemmas (or generalized Morse lemmas) for the energy functionals of Finsler metrics on the natural Hilbert manifolds of $H^1$-curves around a critical point or a critical $R^1$ orbit of a Finsler isometry invariant closed geodesic. They are the desired generalization on Finsler manifolds of the corresponding Gromoll-Meyer's splitting lemmas on Riemannian manifolds (cite{GM1, GM2}). As an application we extend to Finsler manifolds a result by Grove and Tanaka cite{GroTa78, Tan82} about the existence of infinitely many, geometrically distinct, isometry invariant closed geodesics on a closed Riemannian manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3209

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert manifoldsMorse lemmasFinsler metric, energy functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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