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Closed geodesics with local homology in maximal degree on non-compact manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-12-27 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that, on a complete and possibly non-compact Riemannian manifold of dimension at least 2 without close conjugate points at infinity, the existence of a closed geodesic with local homology in maximal degree and maximal index growth under iteration forces the existence of infinitely many closed geodesics. For closed manifolds, this was a theorem due to Hingston.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00257,
  title  = {Closed geodesics with local homology in maximal degree on non-compact manifolds},
  author = {Luca Asselle and Marco Mazzucchelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00257},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

36 pages, 3 figures. Version 2: minor modifications. To appear in Differential Geometry and its Applications