Index parity of closed geodesics and rigidity of Hopf fibrations

DOI10.1007/S002220100123zbMath1028.53044MaRDI QIDQ5944890

Burkhard Wilking

Publication date: 6 April 2003

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryRiemannian manifoldgeodesicsrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Classification; finite determinacy of map germs (58K40)

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