Alexandrov-embedded closed magnetic geodesics on S2

DOI10.1017/S0143385711000289zbMATH Open1252.53050arXiv0903.1128OpenAlexW2963587625MaRDI QIDQ3166362FDOQ3166362

Matthias Schneider

Publication date: 11 October 2012

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

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

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)

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Cited In (6)

• On the existence of closed magnetic geodesics via symplectic reduction
• On the existence of closed \(C^{1, 1}\) curves of constant curvature
• Existence of curves with constant geodesic curvature in a Riemannian 2-sphere
• The contact property for symplectic magnetic fields on \(S^{2}\)
• Infinitely many noncontractible closed magnetic geodesics on non-compact manifolds
• On geodesic flows with symmetries and closed magnetic geodesics on orbifolds

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