Notes on the Jacobi equation

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2008.10.012MaRDI QIDQ1012350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Lytchak

Publication date 16 April 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2651

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointsfocal pointsindexJacobi fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We discuss some properties of Jacobi fields that do not involve assumptions on the curvature endomorphism. We compare indices of different spaces of Jacobi fields and give some applications to Riemannian geometry.

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