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A Lower Bound for the Length of Closed Geodesics on a Finsler Manifold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Wei Zhao*
Affiliation:
Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper, we obtain a lower bound for the length of closed geodesics on an arbitrary closed Finsler manifold.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2014

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