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arxiv: 1708.00857 · v1 · pith:OV6F6FFInew · submitted 2017-08-02 · 🧮 math.DS · math.DG· math.SG

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

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Let $M=S^n/ \Gamma$ and $h$ be a nontrivial element of finite order $p$ in $\pi_1(M)$, where the integer $n\geq2$, $\Gamma$ is a finite group which acts freely and isometrically on the $n$-sphere and therefore $M$ 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 $[h]$ on every Finsler compact space form $(M, F)$ when there exist only finitely many distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class $[h]$ on $(M, F)$. Then as an application of this resonance identity, we prove the existence of at least two distinct non-contractible closed geodesics of the class $[h]$ on $(M, F)$ 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 $\mathcal{R}P^n$ in [arXiv:1607.02746] to general compact space forms.

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