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Geodesic laminations with closed ends on surfaces and Morse index; Kupka-Smale metrics

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give in this paper bounds for the Morse indices of a large class of simple geodesics on a surface with a generic metric. To our knowledge these bounds are the first that use only the generic hypothesis on the metric.

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@article{arxiv.math/0208133,
  title  = {Geodesic laminations with closed ends on surfaces and Morse index; Kupka-Smale metrics},
  author = {Tobias H. Colding and Nancy Hingston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0208133},
  year   = {2007}
}