Resonance for loop homology of spheres

DOI10.4310/JDG/1357141508MaRDI QIDQ360064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nancy Hingston, Hans-Bert Rademacher

Publication date 26 August 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0783, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1357141508

zbMATH Keywords

resonanceclosed geodesicFinsler metricRiemannian metricloop homologymean frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Loop spaces (55P35)

Abstract: A Riemannian or Finsler metric on a compact manifold M gives rise to a length function on the free loop space Lambda M, whose critical points are the closed geodesics in the given metric. If X is a homology class on Lambda M, the minimax critical level cr(X) is a critical value. Let M be a sphere of dimension >2, and fix a metric g and a coefficient field G. We prove that the limit as deg(X) goes to infinity of cr(X)/deg(X) exists. We call this limit the "global mean frequency" of M. As a consequence we derive resonance statements for closed geodesics on spheres; in particular either all homology on Lambda M of sufficiently high degreee lies hanging on closed geodesics whose mean frequency (average index / length) equals the global mean frequency, or there is a sequence of infinitely many closed geodesics whose mean frequencies converge to the global mean frequency. The proof uses the Chas-Sullivan product and results of Goresky-Hingston [GH].

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