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C 2 densely the 2-sphere has an elliptic closed geodesic

C 2 densely the 2-sphere has an elliptic closed geodesic

We prove that a Riemannian metric on the 2-sphere or the projective plane can be C2 approximated by a $C^\infty$ metric whose geodesic flow has an elliptic closed geodesic.