On surfaces with no conjugate points

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214440852zbMath0592.53041OpenAlexW1537020219WikidataQ115184818 ScholiaQ115184818MaRDI QIDQ1075614

Werner Ballmann, Michael Brin, Keith Burns

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214440852

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointsRiccati equationcompact surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A12) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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