A Morse complex for Lorentzian geodesics

DOI10.4310/AJM.2008.V12.N3.A3zbMATH Open1166.58009arXivmath/0605261MaRDI QIDQ1002437FDOQ1002437

Alberto Abbondandolo, Pietro Majer

Publication date: 26 February 2009

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the Morse relations for the set of all geodesics connecting two non-conjugate points on a class of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. We overcome the difficulties coming from the fact that the Morse index of every geodesic is infinite, and from the lack of the Palais-Smale condition, by using the Morse complex approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605261

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicLorentzian manifoldMaslov indexMorse complexMorse relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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