Thin r-neighborhoods of embedded geodesics with finite length and negative Jacobi operator are strongly convex

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.264.307MaRDI QIDQ372510zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe P. Delanoë

Publication date 8 October 2013

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2013.264.307

zbMATH Keywords

convexityFermi chartgeodesicnegative curvaturetube

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Take an embedded finite-length geodesic \(\gamma_0\) in a complete Riemannian manifold. Suppose that \(\gamma_0\) has negative Jacobi operator. Then every sufficiently small tubular neighborhood of \(\gamma_0\) is strongly convex. The proof relies on a maximum principle: For any other geodesic \(\gamma\) in a small enough tubular neighborhood around \(\gamma_0\), the distance \(d\left(\gamma(t),\gamma_0\right)\) is maximal at one or both of the ends of \(\gamma\); picture the geodesics of the hyperbolic plane, in contrast to those of the sphere.

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