On the Maslov and the Morse index for constrained variational problems.

DOI10.1016/S0021-7824(01)01225-9zbMath1038.37050MaRDI QIDQ1406896

Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date: 7 September 2003

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Morse index; nonholonomic mechanics; Maslow index; symplectic differential systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

53D12: Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index

70F25: Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles

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