Lengths of three simple periodic geodesics on a Riemannian 2-sphere

DOI10.1007/S00208-016-1402-5zbMATH Open1361.53035arXiv1410.8456OpenAlexW1769067054WikidataQ115388923 ScholiaQ115388923MaRDI QIDQ514366FDOQ514366

Regina Rotman, Yevgeny Liokumovich, Alexander Nabutovsky

Publication date: 1 March 2017

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a Riemannian $2$-sphere. A classical theorem of Lyusternik and Shnirelman asserts the existence of three distinct simple non-trivial periodic geodesics on $M$. In this paper we prove that there exist three simple periodic geodesics with lengths that do not exceed $20d$, where $d$ is the diameter of $M$. We also present an upper bound that depends only on the area and diameter for the lengths of the three simple periodic geodesics with positive indices that appear as minimax critical values in the classical proofs of the Lyusternik-Shnirelman theorem. Finally, we present better bounds for these three lengths for "thin" spheres, when the area $A$ is much less than $d^2$, where the bounds for the lengths of the first two simple periodic geodesics are asymptotically optimal, when $Aover{d}^{2}longrightarrow0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8456

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsRiemann sphereMorse theoryLyusternik and Schnirelman theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)

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