Conjugate points and Maslov index in locally symmetric semi-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/j.difgeo.2006.02.007zbMath1111.53039arXivmath/0505160OpenAlexW2040789016WikidataQ115357851 ScholiaQ115357851MaRDI QIDQ2432702

Miguel Ángel Javaloyes, Paolo Piccione

Publication date: 25 October 2006

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505160

zbMATH Keywords

Maslov indexConley-Zehnder indexlocally symmetric manifoldsJordan signatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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