1 Table of Contents: “... in fluid dynamics and chemical reaction-diffusion theory -- W. Klingenberg: The theory of closed geodesics...”

2 Table of Contents: “...; Chapter 4. Morse theory; Chapter 5. Closed geodesics and the cut locus; Chapter 6. The Sphere Theorem...”

3 Table of Contents: “... Differential -- Rational Solutions of and Simple Closed Geodesics on Fricke Surfaces -- The Period Matrices...”

4 Table of Contents: “... formulae, PDO's and equidistribution theorems for closed geodesics and laplace eigenfunctions...”

5 “... to counting closed geodesics on negatively curved manifolds. The thesis also contains asymptotic formulas...”

6 “... arcs between, for instance, closed geodesics. Using tools from ergodic theory (including coding...”