A min-max characterization of Zoll Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1017/S0305004121000311zbMATH Open1498.53058arXiv1809.08689OpenAlexW2889916444WikidataQ115335984 ScholiaQ115335984MaRDI QIDQ5087129FDOQ5087129

Authors: Marco Mazzucchelli, Stefan Suhr 

Publication date: 8 July 2022

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

Abstract: We characterize the Zoll Riemannian metrics on a given simply connected spin closed manifold as those Riemannian metrics for which two suitable min-max values in a finite dimensional loop space coincide. We also show that on odd dimensional Riemannian spheres, when certain pairs of min-max values in the loop space coincide, every point lies on a closed geodesic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08689

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zbMATH Keywords

loop spaceclosed geodesicBesse metricZoll Riemannian metric

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)

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