Every point in a Riemannian manifold is critical

DOI10.1007/S00526-015-0857-7MaRDI QIDQ745583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fernando Galaz-García, Luis Guijarro

Publication date 14 October 2015

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4777

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointdistance functionclosed Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We show that for any point $p$ in a closed Riemannian manifold $M$, there exists at least one point $qinM$ such that $p$ is critical for the distance function from $q$. We also show that such a point $q$ cannot always be reached with geodesic loops based at $q$ with midpoint $p$.

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