The Flat Strip Theorem Fails for Surfaces with No Conjugate Points

DOI10.2307/2159586zbMath0759.53031OpenAlexW4249611411MaRDI QIDQ4005749

Keith Burns

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2159586

zbMATH Keywords

flat cylinderJacobi vector fieldfreely homotopic closed geodesicstotally geodesic immersed cylinder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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Cites Work

• On surfaces with no conjugate points
• On tori having poles
• Horospheres and the stable part of the geodesic flow
• Riemannian manifolds without focal points
• Manifolds without conjugate points
• Visibility manifolds
• On the Variety of Manifolds without Conjugate Points
• Manifolds of Negative Curvature

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