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We give existence results for simple closed curves with prescribed geodesic curvature on $S^{2}$, which correspond to periodic orbits of a charge in a magnetic field.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Matthias Schneider

We prove the Morse relations for the set of all geodesics connecting two non-conjugate points on a class of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. We overcome the difficulties coming from the fact that the Morse index of every geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-23 Alberto Abbondandolo , Pietro Majer

Exploiting a relationship between closed geodesics on a generic closed hyperbolic surface S and a certain unipotent flow on the product space T_1(S) x T_1(S), we obtain a local asymptotic equidistribution result for long closed geodesics on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

In this paper, we establish a sufficient condition for a geodesic in a Riemannian manifold to be homogeneous, i.e. an orbit of an $1$-parameter isometry group. As an application of this result, we provide a new proof of the fact that every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-22 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Geodesic currents on closed hyperbolic surfaces are measures on the unit tangent bundle invariant under geodesic flow and orientation reversal. Every geodesic current induces a dual function on curves via the geometric intersection pairing.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Dídac Martínez-Granado , Dylan P. Thurston

We show that a small neighborhood of a closed symplectic submanifold in a geometrically bounded aspherical symplectic manifold has non-vanishing symplectic homology. As a consequence, we establish the existence of contractible closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Cieliebak , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Ely Kerman

We study the geodesic flow on the global holomorphic sections of the bundle $\pi:{TS}^2\to {S}^2$ induced by the neutral K\"ahler metric on the space of oriented lines of ${\Bbb{R}}^3$, which we identify with ${TS}^2$. This flow is shown to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

This article explores closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. We show that, for sufficiently large $k$, the shortest closed geodesics with at least $k$ self-intersections, taken among all hyperbolic surfaces, all lie on an ideal pair of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Ara Basmajian , Hugo Parlier , Hanh Vo

We give a Morse-theoretic characterization of simple closed geodesics on Riemannian $2$-spheres. On any Riemannian $2$-sphere endowed with a generic metric, we show there exists a simple closed geodesic with Morse index $1$, $2$ and $3$. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Dongyeong Ko

We prove that general helices in Euclidean space for Killing vector fields associated to rotations are helices, that is, curves with constant curvature and constant torsion. In hyperbolic space $\h^3$, we obtain the parametrization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Rafael López

We first study the dynamics of the geodesic flow of a meromorphic connection on a Riemann surface, and prove a Poincar\'e-Bendixson theorem describing recurrence properties and $\omega$-limit sets of geodesics for a meromorphic connection…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Marco Abate , Francesca Tovena

This paper is a review of recent and classical results on integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds and topological obstructions to integrability. We also discuss some open problems.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

In this paper, we generalize the classification of geodesic orbit spheres from Riemannian geometry to Finsler geometry. Then we further prove if a geodesic orbit Finsler sphere has constant flag curvature, it must be Randers. It provides an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Ming Xu

Any closed, oriented, hyperbolic three-manifold with nontrivial second homology has many quasigeodesic flows, where quasigeodesic means that flow lines are uniformly efficient in measuring distance in relative homotopy classes. The flows…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Sérgio Fenley , Lee Mosher

We prove polynomial decay of correlations for geodesic flows on a class of nonpositively curved surfaces where zero curvature only occurs along one closed geodesic. We also prove that various statistical limit laws, including the central…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Yuri Lima , Carlos Matheus , Ian Melbourne

In hyperbolic background geometry, we investigate a generalized circle packing (including circles, horocycles and hypercycles) with conical singularities on a surface with boundary, which has a total geodesic curvature on each generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Guangming Hu , Ziping Lei , Yi Qi , Puchun Zhou

We adapt to $C^r$ Anosov flows on compact manifolds a construction for $C^r$ discrete-time hyperbolic dynamics ($r>1$), obtaining anisotropic Banach or Hilbert spaces on which the resolvent of the generator of weighted transfer operators…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Alexander Adam , Viviane Baladi

Given a compact orientable 3-manifold M whose boundary is a hyperbolic surface and a simple closed curve C in its boundary, every knot in M is homotopic to one whose complement admits a complete hyperbolic structure with totally geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Kent

We prove that every Reeb flow on a closed connected three-manifold has either two or infinitely many simple periodic orbits, assuming that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class. As a special case, we prove a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Umberto Hryniewicz , Michael Hutchings , Hui Liu

In this article, we give multiple situations when having one or two geometrically distinct closed geodesics on a complete Riemannian cylinder $M\simeq S^1\times\mathbb{R}$ or a complete Riemannian plane $M\simeq\mathbb{R}^2$ leads to having…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Simon Allais , Tobias Soethe