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Closed Magnetic Geodesics on $S^2$

Differential Geometry 2010-11-24 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We give existence results for simple closed curves with prescribed geodesic curvature on S2S^{2}, which correspond to periodic orbits of a charge in a magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.0808.4038,
  title  = {Closed Magnetic Geodesics on $S^2$},
  author = {Matthias Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.4038},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

35 pages, added references, corrected typos; added multiplicity result

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