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The existence of two non-contractible closed geodesics on every bumpy Finsler compact space form

Dynamical Systems 2017-08-04 v1 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Let M=Sn/ΓM=S^n/ \Gamma and hh be a nontrivial element of finite order pp in π1(M)\pi_1(M), where the integer n2n\geq2, Γ\Gamma is a finite group which acts freely and isometrically on the nn-sphere and therefore MM 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 [h][h] on every Finsler compact space form (M,F)(M, F) when there exist only finitely many distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class [h][h] on (M,F)(M, F). Then as an application of this resonance identity, we prove the existence of at least two distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class [h][h] on (M,F)(M, F) 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 RPn\mathcal{R}P^n 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