Characterizations of the round two-dimensional sphere in terms of closed geodesics

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2017.10.243MaRDI QIDQ342632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lee Kennard, Jordan Rainone

Publication date 18 November 2016

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00414

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicssurface of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: The question of whether a closed Riemannian manifold has infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics has a long history. Though unsolved in general, it is well understood in the case of surfaces. For surfaces of revolution diffeomorphic to the sphere, a refinement of this problem was introduced by Borzellino, Jordan-Squire, Petrics, and Sullivan. In this article, we quantify their result by counting distinct geodesics of bounded length. In addition, we reframe these results to obtain a couple of characterizations of the round two-sphere.

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