Real projective spaces with all geodesics closed

DOI10.1007/S00039-017-0407-XMaRDI QIDQ2364141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Lin, Benjamin Schmidt

Publication date 18 July 2017

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-017-0407-x

zbMATH Keywords

Blaschke conjectureclosed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Review text

The authors prove that, on a real projective space of dimension \(n \neq 3\), any Riemannian metric with all geodesics closed is isometric to the standard metric, up to rescaling by a positive constant. \textit{C. Pries} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 18, No. 5, 1774--1785 (2009; Zbl 1160.53022)] had previously proven this result, but only for the real projective plane. They deduce this result from their Theorem 1: Any smooth homotopy sphere with a Riemannian metric has injectivity radius equal to the diameter just when {\parindent=0.7cm \begin{itemize}\item[(1)] all geodesics are closed and \item[(2)] all prime closed geodesics have equal length and \item[(3)] the metric admits a fixed point free isometric involution. \end{itemize}} Their short and elegant proof makes use of prior results on the Blaschke conjecture, but is otherwise essentially self contained.

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