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 manifolds; isometry- invariant geodesics; manifolds of cohomogeneity 1; rationally hyperbolic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55P62: Rational homotopy theory

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

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

57R19: Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology

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