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In this note we prove that on a simply-connected Stiefel manifold that is not a sphere, there are infinitely many closed geodesics in any riemannian metric.
This work was written under the support of SFB 170, "Geometrie und Analysis", at the Mathematisches Institut in Göttingen.
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McCleary, J. (1985). Closed geodesics on stiefel manifolds. In: Smith, L. (eds) Algebraic Topology Göttingen 1984. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074429
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