Effective universal coverings and local minima of the length functional on loop spaces

DOI10.1007/s00039-010-0067-6zbMath1203.53039OpenAlexW1988882890MaRDI QIDQ708818

Alexander Nabutovsky

Publication date: 14 October 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-010-0067-6

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureloop spaceseffective universal coveringsgeodesic loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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