Constructing metrics on a 2-torus with a partially prescribed stable norm

Abstract: A result of Bangert states that the stable norm associated to any Riemannian metric on the

2

-torus

T^{2}

is strictly convex. We demonstrate that the space of stable norms associated to metrics on

T^{2}

forms a proper dense subset of the space of strictly convex norms on

R^{2}

. In particular, given a strictly convex norm

N o r m_{i} n f t y

on

R^{2}

we construct a sequence

< N o r m_{j} >_{j = 1}^{i n f t y}

of stable norms that converge to

N o r m_{i} n f t y

in the topology of compact convergence and have the property that for each

r > 0

there is an

N e q u i v N (r)

such that

N o r m_{j}

agrees with

N o r m_{i} n f t y

on

for all

j g e q N

. Using this result, we are able to derive results on multiplicities which arise in the minimum length spectrum of

2

-tori and in the simple length spectrum of hyperbolic tori.

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