Bifurcation results for critical points of families of functionals.

zbMATH Open1324.47108arXiv1210.0417MaRDI QIDQ2018258FDOQ2018258

Alessandro Portaluri, N. Waterstraat

Publication date: 13 April 2015

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

Abstract: Recently the first author studied the bifurcation of critical points of families of functionals on a Hilbert space, which are parametrised by a compact and orientable manifold having a non-vanishing first integral cohomology group. We improve this result in two directions: topologically and analytically. From the analytical point of view we generalise it to a broader class of functionals; from the topological point of view we allow the parameter space to be a metrisable Banach manifold. Our methods are in particular powerful if the parameter space is simply connected. As an application of our results we consider families of geodesics in (semi-) Riemannian manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0417

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationcritical pointgeodesicspartition of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Abstract bifurcation theory involving nonlinear operators (47J15) 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) Numerical bifurcation problems (65P30)

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