The cut loci on ellipsoids and certain Liouville manifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2010.V14.N2.A6zbMATH Open1210.53044OpenAlexW2069975934MaRDI QIDQ623258FDOQ623258

Authors Kazuyoshi Kiyohara, Jin-Ichi Itoh

Publication date 14 February 2011

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4743

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusLiouville manifoldintegrable geodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We show that some riemannian manifolds diffeomorphic to the sphere have the property that the cut loci of general points are smoothly embedded closed disks of codimension one. Ellipsoids with distinct axes are typical examples of such manifolds.

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