On the Cut Locus of Submanifolds of a Finsler Manifold

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the cut locus of closed (not necessarily compact) submanifolds in a forward complete Finsler manifold. We explore the deformation and characterization of the cut locus, extending the results of Basu and the second author (\emph{Algebraic and Geometric Topology}, 2023). Given a submanifold $N$, we consider an $N$-geodesic loop as an $N$-geodesic starting and ending in $N$, possibly at different points. This class of geodesics were studied by Omori (\emph{Journal of Differential Geometry}, 1968). We obtain a generalization of Klingenberg's lemma for closed geodesics (\emph{Annals of Mathematics}, 1959) for $N$-geodesic loops in the reversible Finsler setting.

37 pages, 8 figures. Published in the Journal of Geometric Analysis

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