Minimizing closed geodesics via critical points of the uniform energy

DOI10.4310/MRL.2016.V23.N4.A1zbMATH Open1370.53036arXiv1406.0372OpenAlexW2963795621MaRDI QIDQ727702FDOQ727702

Authors: Ian M. Adelstein 

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study 1/k-geodesics, those closed geodesics that minimize on any subinterval of length $l(gamma)/k$. We employ energy methods to provide a relationship between the 1/k-geodesics and what we define as the balanced points of the uniform energy. We show that classes of balanced points of the uniform energy persist under the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of Riemannian manifolds. Additionally, we relate half-geodesics (1/2-geodesics) to the Grove-Shiohama critical points of the distance function. This relationship affords us the ability to study the behavior of half-geodesics via the well developed field of critical point theory. Along the way we provide a complete characterization of the differentiability of the Riemannian distance function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0372

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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• Manifolds without \(\tfrac {1}{k}\)-geodesics
• Minimizing closed geodesics on polygons and disks
• Closed geodesics on doubled polygons
• Minimizing geodesic nets and critical points of distance
• Morse theory for the uniform energy

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