Infinitely many periodic orbits just above the Ma\~n\'e critical value on the 2-sphere

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Authors Gabriele Benedetti, Marco Mazzucchelli

Publication date 28 February 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: We introduce a new critical value $c_{i}nfty(L)$ for Tonelli Lagrangians $L$ on the tangent bundle of the 2-sphere without minimizing measures supported on a point. We show that $c_{i}nfty(L)$ is strictly larger than the Ma~n'e critical value $c(L)$, and on every energy level $ein(c(L),c_{i}nfty(L))$ there exist infinitely many periodic orbits of the Lagrangian system of $L$, one of which is a local minimizer of the free-period action functional. This has applications to Finsler metrics of Randers type on the 2-sphere. We show that, under a suitable criticality assumption on a given Randers metric, after rescaling its magnetic part with a sufficiently large multiplicative constant, the new metric admits infinitely many closed geodesics, one of which is a waist. Examples of critical Randers metrics include the celebrated Katok metric.

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