The second closed geodesic, the fundamental group, and generic Finsler metrics
arXiv:2011.01909 · doi:10.1007/s00209-022-03062-z
Abstract
For compact manifolds with infinite fundamental group we present sufficient topological or metric conditions ensuring the existence of two geometrically distinct closed geodesics. We also show how results about generic Riemannian metrics can be carried over to Finsler metrics.
15 pages, we added a comment on an application of the closing lemma in Section 3 and related references