C 2 densely the 2-sphere has an elliptic closed geodesic

DOI10.1017/S0143385704000422MaRDI QIDQ5289875zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 19 April 2006

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312005

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metric2-spheregeodesic flowprojective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We prove that a riemannian metric on the 2-sphere or the projective plane can be C2-approximated by a smooth metric whose geodesic flow has an elliptic closed geodesic.

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• Proof of the \(C^2\)-stability conjecture for geodesic flows of closed surfaces
• Global properties of tight Reeb flows with applications to Finsler geodesic flows on \(S^2\)
• Geodesic flows with positive topological entropy, twist maps and hyperbolicity
• The contact property for symplectic magnetic fields on \(S^{2}\)

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