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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
Wei Zhao*
Affiliation:
Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China e-mail: zhaowei008@yahoo.cn
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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.

Keywords

53B4053C22Finsler manifoldclosed geodesicinjective radius
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 14 March 2014 , pp. 194 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2014

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