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Closed geodesics on incomplete surfaces

Geometry/Topology

Speaker: Paul Norbury, University of Melbourne
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Wed, Nov 12 2003, 4:10PM

Motivated by the question of when a Heegaard surface is isotopic to a minimal surface, we consider the problem of finding embedded closed geodesics on the two-sphere equipped with an incomplete metric.