On the geodesic curvature of Riemannian loops (Q5943579)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1652380
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    On the geodesic curvature of Riemannian loops
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1652380

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      On the geodesic curvature of Riemannian loops (English)
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      27 September 2001
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      The paper gives an inequality for the total geodesic curvature of a closed curve \(c\) in a standard space form of constant curvature in terms of the length of \(c\) and the radius of the smallest ball containing \(c\). The case of equality leads to closed geodesics of a geodesic sphere.
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      loops
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      total geodesic curvature
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      geodesic sphere
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