Existence of closed geodesics on positively curved manifolds

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214437662zbMath0514.53044OpenAlexW1498780745WikidataQ115187962 ScholiaQ115187962MaRDI QIDQ1051285

Wolfgang Ziller, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, Werner Ballmann

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214437662

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicssphere theoremLusternik- Schnirelmann theorypinched positively curved manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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