The existence of two non-contractible closed geodesics on every bumpy Finsler compact space form
Abstract
Let and be a nontrivial element of finite order in , where the integer , is a finite group which acts freely and isometrically on the -sphere and therefore is diffeomorphic to a compact space form. In this paper, we establish first the resonance identity for non-contractible homologically visible minimal closed geodesics of the class on every Finsler compact space form when there exist only finitely many distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class on . Then as an application of this resonance identity, we prove the existence of at least two distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class on with a bumpy Finsler metric, which improves a result of Taimanov in [Taimanov 2016] by removing some additional conditions. Also our results extend the resonance identity and multiplicity results on in [arXiv:1607.02746] to general compact space forms.
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@article{arxiv.1708.00857,
title = {The existence of two non-contractible closed geodesics on every bumpy Finsler compact space form},
author = {Hui Liu and Yiming Long and Yuming Xiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00857},
year = {2017}
}
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33 pages, All comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1607.02746