Multiplicity of closed geodesics on bumpy Finsler manifolds with elliptic closed geodesics

Abstract

Let $M$ be a compact simply connected manifold satisfying $H^{\ast }(M;\mathbf{Q})\cong T_{d,n+1}(x)$ for integers $d\ge 2$ and $n\ge 1$. If all prime closed geodesics on $(M,F)$ with an irreversible bumpy Finsler metric $F$ are elliptic, either there exist exactly $\frac{dn(n+1)}{2}$ (when $d\ge 2$ is even) or $(d+1)$ (when $d\ge 3$ is odd) distinct closed geodesics, or there exist infinitely many distinct closed geodesics.

arXiv comment20 pages, to appear in J. Funct. Anal. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.02872