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Closed geodesics on closed manifolds

There is (or was) a notorious open problem (see e.g. this survey by Keith Burns and Vladimir Matveyev from 2013) in differential geometry: Conjecture. Let $M$ be a closed (compact, with empty boundary)...
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On the weak homotopy type of a differentiable (Chen) space

Suppose that $M$ is a differentiable space in the sense of Chen (cf. https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Chen+space ). Assume that $M$ also has the structure of a topological space and that the two ...
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Representing rational homotopy class by geometric objects

Given a smooth manifold $M$, we can study its rational homotopy type by looking at differential forms. I am wondering if there is a way to represent each $rational$ homotopy class by geometric ...