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Metrics on torus without closed contractible geodesics

It is easy to see that any closed geodesic on a flat 2-torus is noncontractible. Further the same holds true for a torus of revolution. Indeed either a closed geodesic is a meridian and therefore non …
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A problem on Gauss--Bonnet formula

While teaching a course in differential geometry, I came up with the following problem, which I think is cool. Assume $\gamma$ is a closed geodesic on a sphere $\Sigma$ with positive Gauss curvature. …
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