Isometry-invariant geodesics and the fundamental group. II.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.12.023zbMATH Open1372.58009OpenAlexW1964313774MaRDI QIDQ507220FDOQ507220

Authors Leonardo Macarini, Marco Mazzucchelli

Publication date 3 February 2017

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05685

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsMorse theoryisometry-invariant geodesicsbroken geodesicshomotopiesmean indexsimplexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We show that on a closed Riemannian manifold with fundamental group isomorphic to $mathbbZ$, other than the circle, every isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. This completes a recent result of the second author.

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