A viscosity method for the min-max construction of closed geodesics

DOI10.1051/COCV/2016039zbMATH Open1353.49006arXiv1511.04545OpenAlexW2962856054WikidataQ124842071 ScholiaQ124842071MaRDI QIDQ2835360FDOQ2835360

Authors: Alexis Michelat, Tristan Rivière 

Publication date: 2 December 2016

Published in: European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a viscosity approach to the min-max construction of closed geodesics on compact Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary dimension. We also construct counter-examples in dimension $1$ and $2$ to the $varepsilon$-regularity in the convergence procedure. Furthermore, we prove the lower semi-continuity of the index of our sequence of critical points converging towards a closed non-trivial geodesic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04545

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zbMATH Keywords

minimax problemsgeodesicsFinsler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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