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ON EXISTENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONJUGATE POINTS IN FINSLER GEOMETRY

  • Kim, Chang-Wan (Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences Mokpo National Maritime University)
  • Received : 2017.04.26
  • Accepted : 2017.09.26
  • Published : 2017.11.15
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Abstract

In this paper, we shall study the existence and distribution of conjugate points in Finsler geometry from the viewpoint of the oscillation and Morse index theory.

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