On the lengths of closed geodesics on a two-sphere

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04235-4zbMath0889.58026MaRDI QIDQ4356723

Nancy Hingston

Publication date: 1 October 1997

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

indexclosed geodesicslocal homologyminimax-arguments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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