Three-dimensional manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed (Q849346)

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    Three-dimensional manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed
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      Three-dimensional manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed (English)
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      25 February 2010
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      The paper presents results on the Morse theory of the energy functional on the free loop space of \(S^3\) endowed with a Riemannian metric for which all geodesics are closed. Implications for the geometry of the involved manifolds are then discussed.
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      Berger conjecture
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      Morse theory
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      manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed
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      three sphere
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