The index growth and multiplicity of closed geodesics |
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Authors: | Huagui Duan Yiming Long |
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Institution: | a School of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China b Chern Institute of Mathematics and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | In the recent paper 31] of Long and Duan (2009), we classified closed geodesics on Finsler manifolds into rational and irrational two families, and gave a complete understanding on the index growth properties of iterates of rational closed geodesics. This study yields that a rational closed geodesic cannot be the only closed geodesic on every irreversible or reversible (including Riemannian) Finsler sphere, and that there exist at least two distinct closed geodesics on every compact simply connected irreversible or reversible (including Riemannian) Finsler 3-dimensional manifold. In this paper, we study the index growth properties of irrational closed geodesics on Finsler manifolds. This study allows us to extend results in 31] of Long and Duan (2009) on rational, and in 12] of Duan and Long (2007), 39] of Rademacher (2010), and 40] of Rademacher (2008) on completely non-degenerate closed geodesics on spheres and CP2 to every compact simply connected Finsler manifold. Then we prove the existence of at least two distinct closed geodesics on every compact simply connected irreversible or reversible (including Riemannian) Finsler 4-dimensional manifold. |
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Keywords: | Closed geodesics Index growth Multiplicity Compact simply connected manifolds |
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