Geodesic flow on the diffeomorphism group of the circle

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 787-804

  Constantin, Adrian ^a   Kolev, Boris ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Diffeomorphism group of the circle; Geodesic flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242350978     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00014-003-0785-6     Document Type: Article

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