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Journal of Differential Geometry 61 (2002), 453-535.

Zoll manifolds and complex surfaces

Claude LeBrun & L.J. Mason

Abstract:

We classify compact surfaces with torsion-free affine connections for which every geodesic is a simple closed curve. In the process, we obtain completely new proofs of all the major results [4] concerning the Riemannian case. In contrast to previous work, our approach is twistor-theoretic, and depends fundamentally on the fact that, up to biholomorphism, there is only one complex structure on $\CP_2$.