Spectral flow and iteration of closed semi-Riemannian geodesics

DOI10.1007/s00526-008-0170-9zbMath1162.53033arXiv0711.0635WikidataQ115387637 ScholiaQ115387637MaRDI QIDQ1006411

Paolo Piccione, Miguel Ángel Javaloyes

Publication date: 24 March 2009

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0635

zbMATH Keywords

spectral flow; semi-Riemannian manifold; closed geodesics; Morse index theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47A53: (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

58J30: Spectral flows

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