Open problems and questions about geodesics

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2019.73zbMATH Open1486.53003OpenAlexW1509607846WikidataQ114119488 ScholiaQ114119488MaRDI QIDQ5019554FDOQ5019554

Authors Keith Burns, Vladimir S. Matveev 

Publication date 10 January 2022

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5417

zbMATH Keywords

entropyclosed geodesicgeodesicsprojectively equivalent metricsintegrable geodesic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02)

Abstract: The paper surveys open problems and questions related to geodesics defined by Riemannian, Finsler, semi Riemannian and magnetic structures on manifolds.

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