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.References
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Additional Information
- Jianming Wan
- Affiliation: Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, People’s Republic of China
- MR Author ID: 897308
- Email: wanj_m@yahoo.com.cn
- Received by editor(s): February 25, 2010
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 17, 2010
- Published electronically: August 24, 2010
- Communicated by: Jianguo Cao
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 687-689
- MSC (2010): Primary 53C20; Secondary 53C22
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10549-X
- MathSciNet review: 2736348