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Geometry-Topology Reading Seminar

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 10:30am

John Olsen

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

The Berger conjecture states that on a simply connected Riemannian manifold all of whose geodesics are closed, the geodesics should have the same least period. In this talk I will show that the conjectures holds in dimension 3. Previously, only the two dimensional case was proved by Grove-Gromoll.