English

On the equidistribution of closed geodesics and geodesic nets

Differential Geometry 2023-07-21 v3 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that given a closed nn-manifold MM, for a generic set of Riemannian metrics gg on MM there exists a sequence of closed geodesics that are equidistributed in MM if n=2n=2; and an equidistributed sequence of embedded stationary geodesic nets if n=3n=3. One of the main tools that we use is the Weyl Law for the volume spectrum for 11-cycles, proved by Liokumovich, Marques and Neves for n=2n=2 and more recently by Guth and Liokumovich for n=3n=3. We show that our proof of the equidistribution of geodesic nets can be generalized for any dimension n2n\geq 2 provided the Weyl Law for 11-cycles in nn-manifolds holds.

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@article{arxiv.2205.13694,
  title  = {On the equidistribution of closed geodesics and geodesic nets},
  author = {Xinze Li and Bruno Staffa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.13694},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

The article was accepted for publication in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society