Spectral flow and bifurcation of critical points of strongly-indefinite functionals. I: General theory

DOI10.1006/jfan.1998.3366zbMath0915.58091OpenAlexW2095476995MaRDI QIDQ1283687

Jacobo Pejsachowicz, Lázaro Recht, Patrick M. Fitzpatrick

Publication date: 5 July 1999

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jfan.1998.3366

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointHessianspectral flowbifurcation pointhomotopy invariantself-adjoint Fredholm operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30)

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