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On the entropy of the geodesic flow in manifolds without conjugate points

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Freire, A., Mañé, R. On the entropy of the geodesic flow in manifolds without conjugate points. Invent Math 69, 375–392 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01389360

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