This book contains expository lectures from the CBMS Regional Conference held at the University of Florida, 1982. The author considers a space formed by all closed curves in which the closed geodesics are characterized as the critical points of a functional, an idea going back to Morse. This exposition gives a refined version of Morse's approach which has several advantages over the old one - in particular, it possesses a canonical $\mathbf O(2)$-action.
- ISBN13 9780821807033
- Publish Date 30 December 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Mathematical Society
- Format Paperback
- Pages 79
- Language English