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Open problems and questions about geodesics

Part of: Differential geometry Global analysis, analysis on manifolds Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2019

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KEITH BURNS
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Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University Evanston, IL60208-2730, USA email [email protected]
VLADIMIR S. MATVEEV
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Institut für Mathematik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743Jena, Germany email [email protected]
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Abstract

The paper surveys open problems and questions related to geodesics defined by Riemannian, Finsler, semi-Riemannian and magnetic structures on manifolds. It is an extended report on problem sessions held during the International Workshop on Geodesics in August 2010 at the Chern Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin.

Keywords

geodesicsclosed geodesicentropyintegrable geodesic flowsprojectively equivalent metrics

MSC classification

Primary: 53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) 58-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) 53C22: Geodesics
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , March 2021 , pp. 641 - 684
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