Bifurcation results for critical points of families of functionals.

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Authors Alessandro Portaluri, N. Waterstraat

Publication date 13 April 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationcritical pointgeodesicspartition of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

This paper deals with the bifurcation analysis of critical points of paths of functionals. Given a \(C^2\) real-valued functional defined in a general setting, the first main result of this paper establishes a sufficient condition for the following alternative: either the bifurcation set of the functional has interior points or it disconnects some open connected set of a metrizable, connected smooth Banach manifold. This result is then improved in the case of simply connected Banach manifolds. The proofs combine homotopy arguments with methods in critical point theory. The abstract results are illustrated with an example dealing with families of geodesics in semi-Riemannian manifolds.

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