Geodesics and Jacobi fields in bounded homogeneous domains

D’Atri, J. E.; Zhao, Yan Da

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1983-0706511-3

Geodesics and Jacobi fields in bounded homogeneous domains
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Abstract:

We examine geodesics in bounded homogeneous domains equipped with an admissible Kähler metric. As in the symmetric case, there are no selfintersecting geodesics but, in contrast with the symmetric case, focal points can exist even in the Bergman metric.

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