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Infinitely many closed geodesic images on every Riemannian sphere

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We resolve the sphere case of the closed-geodesic infinitude problem: every smooth Riemannian metric on the standard sphere S n , n ≥ 2, has infinitely many prime closed geodesics with pairwise distinct images. The two-sphere case is classical; the result in higher dimensions includes degenerate metrics. Using finite covers and theorems of Perelman and Rademacher–Taimanov, we also obtain the same conclusion for every smooth Riemannian metric on a nonempty closed smooth three-manifold.

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