Abstract
The question of whether a closed Riemannian manifold has infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics has a long history. Though unsolved in general, it is well understood in the case of surfaces. For surfaces of revolution diffeomorphic to the sphere, a refinement of this problem was introduced by Borzellino, Jordan-Squire, Petrics, and Sullivan. In this article, we quantify their result by counting distinct geodesics of bounded length. In addition, we reframe these results to obtain a couple of characterizations of the round two-sphere.
Citation
Lee Kennard. Jordan Rainone. "Characterizations of the round two-dimensional sphere in terms of closed geodesics." Involve 10 (2) 243 - 255, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2017.10.243
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