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Geodesic Flows

By Gabriel P. Paternain

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Boston
Year
1999
ISBN
0817641440, 9780817641443
LCC
QA614.82 .P38 1999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2501107 bytes)
Series
Progress in Mathematics 180
Edition
1
Pages
169\169
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This work begins with an introduction to the geodesic flow of a complete Riemannian manifold, emphasizing its sympletic properties and culminating with various applications such as the non-existence of continuous invariant Lagrangian sub-bundles for manifolds with conjugate points. Subsequent chapters develop the relationship between the exponential growth rate of the average number of geodesic arcs between two points.

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