Closed geodesics and volume growth of Riemannian manifolds

Wan, Jianming

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10549-X

Closed geodesics and volume growth of Riemannian manifolds
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Abstract:

In this paper, we study the relation between the existence of closed geodesics and the volume growth of open Riemannian manifolds with non-negative curvature.

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