The Jacobi map

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(95)00045-3MaRDI QIDQ1924397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Chr. Larsen

Publication date 16 December 1996

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(95)00045-3

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic variationindex theoremJacobi fieldsemi-Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Using two-parameter variations of a geodesic in a semi-Riemannian manifold, the author introduces \(n\)-th order Jacobi vector fields. He obtains necessary and sufficient conditions for an \(n\)-th order Jacobi field to be the variation vector field as well as the index theorem, giving upper and lower bounds for the focal multiplicity.

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