The Weinstein conjecture in cotangent bundles and related results

Hofer, H.; Viterbo, C.

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 15 (1988) no. 3, pp. 411-445.

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