Closed geodesics in simply connected Riemannian spaces of negative curvature (Q1595488)
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Closed geodesics in simply connected Riemannian spaces of negative curvature (English)
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12 February 2001
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It is known that if a Riemannian variety of negative sectional curvature is homeomorphic to the 2-dimensional plane then there is no closed geodesic on this variety. Examples are known of Riemannian varieties of negative sectional curvature which are homeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n>2\), and have closed geodesics. In the article under review, the author obtains Riemannian varieties with sectional curvature \(\leq -1\) which are diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^n\) and have closed geodesics.
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closed geodesic
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Riemannian variety
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negative sectional curvature
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