Towards the Legendre Sturm theory of space curves

DOI10.1007/BF02482593zbMath0973.53505MaRDI QIDQ1281507

Vladimir I. Arnold

Publication date: 18 May 1999

Published in: Functional Analysis and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory; projective space; swallowtail; closed curve; Sturm theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

53A20: Projective differential geometry

58K05: Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds

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