Closed Geodesics on Riemannian Manifolds

Closed Geodesics on Riemannian Manifolds PDF Author: Wilhelm Klingenberg (Mathematician)
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 082180703X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Book Description
Contains expository lectures from the CBMS Regional Conference held at the University of Florida, 1982. This book considers a space formed by various closed curves in which the closed geodesics are characterized as the critical points of a functional, an idea going back to Morse.