On metrics on \(S^ 2\) all of whose geodesics are closed

DOI10.1007/BF01389300zbMath0477.53044MaRDI QIDQ1160926

Karsten Grove, Detlef Gromoll

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142845

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesic; common period

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

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