Uma caracterização das esferas euclidianas

Abstract

In this dissertation, we propose a characterization of Euclidean spheres S . n Let g and γ be parameterized geodesics meeting at a point p of M . Such arrangement will be called a con guration and denoted by (g, γ)Γ. Let us p consider the following condition: For any con guration (g, γ) and a point p q = γ(s) 6= p, there exist two and only two parameters t < 0Γ< t such 1 2 that r = g(t ) and r = g(t ) determine geodesic segments [q, r ] and 1 1 2 2 1 σ [q, r ]in such a way that the geodesic triangles ([p, q], [q, r ], [r , p]) and 2 τ γ 1 σ 1 g ([p, q], [q, r ], [r , p] ) are both isosceles having [p, q]Γas a common basis. γ 2 τ 2 g γ We show that if a Riemannian manifold M is complete, connected, oriented and of dimension n ≥−2Γand satis es the condition above then M is isometric to S . Actually, the axiom above assures that M is a Wiedersehen n manifold. Hence, the result will follow from L.W.Green [8], C.T.Yang [1] and J. Kazdan [7].