Closed Geodesics on Riemannian Manifolds (CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics) - Softcover

Klingenberg, Wilhelm

 
9780821807033: Closed Geodesics on Riemannian Manifolds (CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 082180703X ISBN 13: 9780821807033
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 1983

Synopsis

This book contains expository lectures from the CBMS Regional Conference held at the University of Florida, 1982. The author considers a space formed by all closed curves in which the closed geodesics are characterized as the critical points of a functional, an idea going back to Morse. This exposition gives a refined version of Morse's approach which has several advantages over the old one - in particular, it possesses a canonical $\mathbf O(2)$-action.

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Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Publication date
1983
Language
English
ISBN 10 
082180703X
ISBN 13 
9780821807033
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
79