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

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Abstract: We establish the splitting lemmas (or generalized Morse lemmas) for the energy functionals of Finsler metrics on the natural Hilbert manifolds of H1-curves around a critical point or a critical R1 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.



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