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Geodesic Flow on Ideal Polyhedra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charalambos Charitos  and
Georgios Tsapogas
Charalambos Charitos
Affiliation:
Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Mathematics, 75 Iera Odos, Athens 11855, Greece e-mail: gmat2xax@auadec.aua.ariadne-t.gr
Georgios Tsapogas
Affiliation:
University of the Aegean, Department of Mathematics,Karlovassi, Samos 83200, Greece e-mail: gtsap@aegean.gr
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Abstract

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In this work we study the geodesic flow on n-dimensional ideal polyhedra and establish classical (for manifolds of negative curvature) results concerning the distribution of closed orbits of the flow.

Keywords

57M2053C23
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1997 , pp. 696 - 707
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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