The cut loci on ellipsoids and certain Liouville manifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2010.V14.N2.A6zbMATH Open1210.53044arXiv0904.4743OpenAlexW2069975934MaRDI QIDQ623258FDOQ623258

Authors: Kazuyoshi Kiyohara, Jin-Ichi Itoh 

Publication date: 14 February 2011

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

cut locusLiouville manifoldintegrable geodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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