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Compact Riemannian manifolds are geodesically complete

Statement

Assume ${A C}_{ω}$ . Every compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold is geodesically complete, including when it is disconnected or empty.

More explicitly, each connected component is compact and complete for its own Riemannian distance, and every maximal geodesic in that component is defined on all of $R$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ .

[A1]

The Axiom of Countable Choice ( ${A C}_{ω}$ ) is the assumed ${A C}_{ω}$ , and Boundaryless convention for geodesic flow and Hopf–Rinow fixes the boundaryless convention.

[F1]

Components of a topological manifold are open and at most countable makes every component $C$ open, so it is a boundaryless Riemannian manifold with restricted metric. The components of a space are its maximal connected subsets, they partition it, and each of them is closed makes $C$ closed in $M$ .

[F2]

A closed subspace of a compact space is compact, and a finite union of compact subspaces is compact makes every such $C$ compact in its manifold topology.

[F3]

The riemannian distance topology is the manifold topology says the intrinsic Riemannian distance $d_{g ∣_{C}}$ induces that topology. For a metric space with its metric topology, compactness in the topological sense is compactness in the metric sense, and the two notions of compact subset coincide therefore makes $(C, d_{g ∣_{C}})$ a compact metric space, and A compact metric space is complete and totally bounded, and neither implication uses any choice principle makes it complete without any choice principle.

[F4]

Under [A1], Hopf–Rinow theorem makes every nonempty connected boundaryless Riemannian manifold that is complete for its Riemannian distance geodesically complete. Geodesically complete Riemannian manifold says that geodesic completeness of a disconnected manifold is exactly this componentwise condition.

Proof

technique · direct

1.1

If $M = \emptyset$ , no initial vector exists, so the universal condition in [F4] is vacuous and $M$ is geodesically complete. Suppose $M \neq \emptyset$ and fix a connected component $C$ . It is nonempty by definition, and [F1] makes it an open-and-closed connected boundaryless Riemannian submanifold.

F1F4

2.1

Compactness of $M$ and closedness of $C$ make $C$ compact by [F2]. By [F3] this is also compactness of the metric space $(C, d_{g ∣_{C}})$ , and that metric space is complete.

F2F3step 1.1

3.1

All hypotheses of [F4] now hold for $C$ , so every maximal geodesic in $C$ has domain $R$ . The component was arbitrary, and the componentwise clause of [F4] therefore makes $M$ geodesically complete.

F4step 2.1

4.1

In dimension zero every component is a singleton, and step 3.1 says its constant geodesics are global. Dimension one is unchanged. Zero initial velocity likewise gives a constant global geodesic. No ball radius, finite endpoint, or minimizer is chosen in this proof. The implication is one-way; noncompact complete manifolds show why no converse is claimed. Assumption [A1] is used through [F4]'s geodesic and Hopf--Rinow constructions; the closed-subset and compact-metric-space implications in [F2]--[F3] are choice-free.

A1F2F3F4step 1.1step 2.1step 3.1∎

Source locator

Datar, Theorem 19.2.1 and its proof, pp.141--144: compactness gives metric completeness, hence geodesic completeness; the authored proof states the empty and disconnected componentwise cases explicitly.

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Sources

Ved Datar, Lectures on Riemannian Geometry, Theorem 19.2.1 and compact-manifold consequence, pp.141--144 (standard reference, not scraped)