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Multiple closed geodesics on Finsler $3$-dimensional sphere

Symplectic Geometry 2024-01-30 v2 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In 1973, Katok constructed a non-degenerate (also called bumpy) Finsler metric on S3S^3 with exactly four prime closed geodesics. And then Anosov conjectured that four should be the optimal lower bound of the number of prime closed geodesics on every Finsler S3S^3. In this paper, we proved this conjecture for bumpy Finsler S3S^{3} if the Morse index of any prime closed geodesic is nonzero.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00211,
  title  = {Multiple closed geodesics on Finsler $3$-dimensional sphere},
  author = {Huagui Duan and Zihao Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00211},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1504.07007

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