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On the growth rate of contractible closed geodesics on reducible manifolds (2003)

Abstract
We prove exponential growth rate of contractible closed geodesics for an arbitrary bumpy metric on manifolds of the form X#Y, where the fundamental group of X has a subgroup of finite index at least 3 and Y is simply connected and not a homotopy sphere.. Comment: There was an error in the original version

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308059
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Mathematics - Differential Geometry, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, 53C22
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