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Infinitely many simple closed geodesics in any compact orientable surface but the sphere

My question is the following: if $(\Sigma, g)$ is any compact orientable Riemannian surface of genus $g \geq 1$, is it true that there are infinitely many closed, simple and geometrically distinct ...
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Application of Santalo’s formula

Suppose that $(M,g)$ is a compact smooth Riemannian manifold with a smooth boundary and suppose that $f$ is a smooth function on $M$ with the property that $$ \int_I f(\gamma(t))\,dt=0,$$ for any ...
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Geodesics (Local vs Global)

Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold, and $p,q\in M$ two points. Now, if $M$ is a complete metric space the Hopf–Rinow theorem ensures that there is a geodesic $C\subset M$ joining $p$ and $q$ that ...
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