An index theory for paths that are solutions of a class of strongly indefinite variational problems.

DOI10.1007/s005260100136zbMath1171.53319arXivmath/0108044MaRDI QIDQ1396207

Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date: 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108044

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory; geodesics; Maslov index; semi-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

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

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)