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Bumpy Metrics Theorem for Geodesic Nets

Differential Geometry 2023-07-21 v6 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

Stationary geodesic networks are the analogs of closed geodesics whose domain is a graph instead of a circle. We prove that for a Baire-generic Riemannian metric on a smooth manifold MM, all connected embedded stationary geodesic nets are non-degenerate.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12446,
  title  = {Bumpy Metrics Theorem for Geodesic Nets},
  author = {Bruno Staffa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12446},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for publication in JTA