Counterexample to a geodesic length conjecture on the 2-sphere

2007/08/13 by Mikhail G. Katz, Katz, Mikhail G.
Mathematics · #53C23 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Geometry and complex manifolds #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Metric Geometry (math.MG) #math.DG #math.MG #msc:53C23

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.1658

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