Bifurcation Theory and the Type Numbers of Marston Morse

DOI10.1073/pnas.69.7.1737zbMath0237.58013OpenAlexW2001296714WikidataQ34713761 ScholiaQ34713761MaRDI QIDQ5647669

Melvyn S. Berger

Publication date: 1972

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.69.7.1737

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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