{ "id": "2008.02249", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-08-05T17:27:02.000Z", "updated": "2020-08-05T17:27:02.000Z", "title": "Closed geodesics on surfaces without conjugate points", "authors": [ "Vaughn Climenhaga", "Gerhard Knieper", "Khadim War" ], "comment": "33 pages, 2 figures", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.DG" ], "abstract": "We obtain Margulis-type asymptotic estimates for the number of free homotopy classes of closed geodesics on certain manifolds without conjugate points. Our results cover all compact surfaces of genus at least 2 without conjugate points.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-08-05T17:27:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37C35", "37D40", "53C22" ], "keywords": [ "conjugate points", "closed geodesics", "margulis-type asymptotic estimates", "free homotopy classes", "compact surfaces" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 33, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }