Morse theory for Riemannian geodesics without nondegeneracy assumptions

DOI10.12775/TMNA.1997.034MaRDI QIDQ1130198zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Anna Valeria Germinario, Fabio Giannoni

Publication date 10 October 1999

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/TMNA.1997.034

zbMATH Keywords

abstract critical point theorygeneralized Morse relationsperturbation of functionalstheory of geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a Hilbert manifold and \(f\in C^2(M,\mathbb R)\) be bounded from below, satisfying the Palais-Smale condition and such that the Hessian of \(f\) at a critical point is Fredholm of index \(0\). The critical points need not be isolated. In this situation the authors define a generalized Morse index of \(f\). The definition is based on considering the set of classical Morse polynomials of certain perturbations of \(f\) which are Morse functions. The classical Morse inequalities generalize immediately. The abstract theory is applied to the theory of geodesics joining two points on a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Here \(f\) is the Dirichlet integral. The authors also introduce a geometric Morse index of \(f\) based on the notion of conjugate points for critical points of perturbations of \(f\).

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