Some existence theorems for closed geodesics (Q789019)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3844563
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    Some existence theorems for closed geodesics
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3844563

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      Some existence theorems for closed geodesics (English)
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      Elementary and geometric methods are used to get existence results for short closed geodesics on certain manifolds of positive curvature. Among others, the optimal number for such closed geodesics for 1/4-pinched metrics on \(P^ n{\mathbb{R}}\) is established.
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      existence results
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      closed geodesics
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      positive curvature
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      pinched metrics
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