A synthetic characterization of the hemisphere

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09196-4MaRDI QIDQ5438482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher B. Croke

Publication date 23 January 2008

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406283

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicisoperimetric inequalityhemisphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We show that round hemispheres are the only compact 2 dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with or without boundary) such that almost every pair of complete geodesics intersect once and only once. We prove this by establishing a sharp isoperimetric inequality for surfaces with boundary such that every pair of geodesics have at most one interior intersection point.

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