Alexandrov-embedded closed magnetic geodesics on S^2

DOI10.1017/S0143385711000289MaRDI QIDQ3166362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Schneider

Publication date 11 October 2012

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1128

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic geodesicsclosed geodesicsperiodic geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We prove the existence of two Alexandrov embedded closed magnetic geodesics on any two dimensional sphere with nonnegative Gauss curvature.

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