Length of geodesics and quantitative Morse theory on loop spaces

DOI10.1007/s00039-012-0207-2zbMath1273.53035MaRDI QIDQ352124

Regina Rotman, Alexander Nabutovsky

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

Morse theory; homotopy class; path; loop space; geodesic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

58B05: Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds

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