Length of geodesics and quantitative Morse theory on loop spaces

DOI10.1007/S00039-012-0207-2MaRDI QIDQ352124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Nabutovsky, Regina Rotman

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-012-0207-2

zbMATH Keywords

loop spacehomotopy classMorse theorypathgeodesic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05)

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