%0 Journal Article %T The length of the shortest closed geodesics on a positively curved manifold %A Yoe Itokawa %A Ryoichi Kobayashi %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We give a metric characterization of the Euclidean sphere in terms of the lower bound of the sectional curvature and the length of the shortest closed geodesics. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2793v1