Not every conjugate point of a semi-Riemannian geodesic is a bifurcation point.

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Authors Giacomo Marchesi, Alessandro Portaluri, N. Waterstraat

Publication date 29 November 2018

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10483

zbMATH Keywords

conformally flat Lorentzian manifoldJacobi's theoremsemi-Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Variational problems in abstract bifurcation theory in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E07) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We revisit an example of a semi-Riemannian geodesic that was discussed by Musso, Pejsachowicz and Portaluri in 2007 to show that not every conjugate point is a bifurcation point. We point out a mistake in their argument, showing that on this geodesic actually every conjugate point is a bifurcation point. Finally, we provide an improved example which yields that the claim in our title is nevertheless true.

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