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The length of the shortest closed geodesics on a positively curved manifold

Authors :
Itokawa, Yoe
Kobayashi, Ryoichi
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

We give a metric characterization of the Euclidean sphere in terms of the lower bound of the sectional curvature and the length of the shortest closed geodesics.<br />Comment: 20 pages

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Differential Geometry
53C20, 53C22

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0805.2793
Document Type :
Working Paper

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