CERTAIN HOMOTOPIES IN THE SPACE OF CLOSED CURVES

DOI10.1070/IM1981v017n03ABEH001367zbMath0489.58009OpenAlexW2015384392MaRDI QIDQ3951271

D. V. Anosov

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/im1981v017n03abeh001367

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalRiemannian manifoldspace of closed curvessmooth homotopyclosed nonselfintersecting geodesics on spherehomology of space of nonoriented closed curves on a spherevariational theory of closed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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