Some existence theorems for closed geodesics

DOI10.1007/BF02564645MaRDI QIDQ789019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Werner Ballmann, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, Wolfgang Ziller

Publication date 1983

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/139948

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsexistence resultspinched metricspositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Elementary and geometric methods are used to get existence results for short closed geodesics on certain manifolds of positive curvature. Among others, the optimal number for such closed geodesics for 1/4-pinched metrics on \(P^ n{\mathbb{R}}\) is established.

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