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June 2010 The Cut Loci on Ellipsoids and Certain Liouville Manifolds
Jin-ichi Itoh, Kazuyoshi Kiyohara
Asian J. Math. 14(2): 257-290 (June 2010).

Abstract

We show that some riemannian manifolds diffeomorphic to the sphere have the property that the cut loci of general points are smoothly embedded closed disks of codimension one. Ellipsoids with distinct axes are typical examples of such manifolds.

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Jin-ichi Itoh. Kazuyoshi Kiyohara. "The Cut Loci on Ellipsoids and Certain Liouville Manifolds." Asian J. Math. 14 (2) 257 - 290, June 2010.

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Published: June 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 11 January 2011

zbMATH: 1210.53044
MathSciNet: MR2746124

Subjects:
Primary: 53C22
Secondary: 53A05

Keywords: Cut locus , ellipsoid , integrable geodesic flow , Liouville manifold

Rights: Copyright © 2010 International Press of Boston

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