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Closed Geodesics on Compact Nilmanifolds with Chevalley Rational Structure

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We continue the study of the distribution of closed geodesics on nilmanifolds constructed from a simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group with a left invariant metric and a lattice. We consider a Lie group with an associated 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra constructed from an irreducible representation of a compact semisimple Lie algebra on a real finite dimensional vector space. We determine sufficient conditions on the semisimple Lie algebra for the nilmanifold to have the density of closed geodesics property for a lattice arising from a Chevalley rational structure.

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@article{arxiv.math/0703930,
  title  = {Closed Geodesics on Compact Nilmanifolds with Chevalley Rational Structure},
  author = {Rachelle DeCoste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703930},
  year   = {2007}
}

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39 pages, 3 tables