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Main Authors: Ammann, Bernd, Loeh, Clara
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01626
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author Ammann, Bernd
Loeh, Clara
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Loeh, Clara
contents A minimal geodesic on a Riemannian manifold is a geodesic defined on $\mathbb{R}$ that lifts to a globally distance minimizing curve on the universal covering. Bangert proved that there is a lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct minimal geodesics of closed Riemannian manifolds that is linear in the first Betti number, using the stable norm unit ball on the first homology. We refine this method to obtain a quadratic lower bound.
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spellingShingle A quadratic lower bound for the number of minimal geodesics
Ammann, Bernd
Loeh, Clara
Differential Geometry
A minimal geodesic on a Riemannian manifold is a geodesic defined on $\mathbb{R}$ that lifts to a globally distance minimizing curve on the universal covering. Bangert proved that there is a lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct minimal geodesics of closed Riemannian manifolds that is linear in the first Betti number, using the stable norm unit ball on the first homology. We refine this method to obtain a quadratic lower bound.
title A quadratic lower bound for the number of minimal geodesics
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01626