On Poincaré's isoperimetric problem for simple closed geodesics

DOI10.1016/0022-1236(81)90091-4zbMath0469.58007MaRDI QIDQ1157059

Enrico Bombieri, Melvyn S. Berger

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1236(81)90091-4

zbMATH Keywords

Poincare's isoperimetric variational problem for simple closed geodesics; smooth ovaloid in 3-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49Q15: Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

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