ON THE EXISTENCE OF CLOSED GEODESICS ON TWO-SPHERES

DOI10.1142/S0129167X93000029zbMath0791.53048MaRDI QIDQ5289689

Victor Bangert

Publication date: 18 July 1994

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesic; Birkhoff's annulus map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

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