Global properties of tight Reeb flows with applications to Finsler geodesic flows on S^2

DOI10.1017/S0305004112000333zbMATH Open1326.53053arXiv1102.1474OpenAlexW3102218283MaRDI QIDQ4902495FDOQ4902495

Authors: Umberto L. Hryniewicz, Pedro A. S. Salomão 

Publication date: 15 January 2013

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that if a Finsler metric on $S^2$ with reversibility $r$ has flag curvatures $K$ satisfying $(fracrr+1{)}^2<Kleq1$, then closed geodesics with specific contact-topological properties cannot exist, in particular there are no closed geodesics with precisely one transverse self-intersection point. This is a special case of a more general phenomenon, and other closed geodesics with many self-intersections are also excluded. We provide examples of Randers type, obtained by suitably modifying the metrics constructed by Katok cite{katok}, proving that this pinching condition is sharp. Our methods are borrowed from the theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectizations. Finally, we study global dynamical aspects of 3-dimensional energy levels $C^2$-close to $S^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1474

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zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicFinsler metricspseudo-holomorphic curvespinching condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

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