Contributions of rational homotopy theory to global problems in geometry

DOI10.1007/BF02700465zbMath0508.55013WikidataQ60961660 ScholiaQ60961660MaRDI QIDQ1837955

Karsten Grove, Stephen Halperin

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1982__56__171_0

zbMATH Keywords

rationally elliptic manifoldsisometry- invariant geodesicsmanifolds of cohomogeneity 1rationally hyperbolic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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