The length of a shortest geodesic loop at a point

DOI10.4310/jdg/1207834554zbMath1143.53038OpenAlexW2143887443WikidataQ115195272 ScholiaQ115195272MaRDI QIDQ2481518

Regina Rotman

Publication date: 10 April 2008

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1207834554

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifolddiameterclosed geodesicshortest curvegeodesic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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