Shapes of geodesic nets

DOI10.2140/gt.2007.11.1225zbMath1134.53018OpenAlexW2161523278MaRDI QIDQ2464820

Alexander Nabutovsky, Regina Rotman

Publication date: 17 December 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2007.11.1225

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsgeodesic netsgeometric calculus of variations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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