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Isometry-invariant geodesics and the fundamental group, II

Differential Geometry 2017-01-27 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that on a closed Riemannian manifold with fundamental group isomorphic to Z\mathbb{Z}, other than the circle, every isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. This completes a recent result of the second author.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05685,
  title  = {Isometry-invariant geodesics and the fundamental group, II},
  author = {Leonardo Macarini and Marco Mazzucchelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05685},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

23 pages. Version 2: added the proof of Lemma 2.2. To appear in Advances in Mathematics