Spectral flow, Brouwer degree and Hill's determinant formula

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2020.05.030MaRDI QIDQ2189804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Portaluri, Li Wu

Publication date 16 June 2020

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00956

zbMATH Keywords

Brouwer degreeelliptic boundary value problemsHill's determinant formulaspectral flowtrace formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree theory for nonlinear operators (47H11) Degree, winding number (55M25) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Spectral flows (58J30) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32)

Abstract: In 2005 a new topological invariant defined in terms of the Brouwer degree of a determinant map, was introduced by Musso, Pejsachowicz and the first name author for counting the conjugate points along a semi-Riemannian geodesic. This invariant was defined in terms of a suspension of a complexified family of linear second order Dirichlet boundary value problems. In this paper, starting from this result, we generalize this invariant to a general self-adjoint Morse-Sturm system and we prove a new spectral flow formula. Finally we discuss the relation between this spectral flow formula and the Hill's determinant formula and we apply this invariant for detecting instability of periodic orbits of a Hamiltonian system.

Review text

The paper presents a definition of a new topological invariant, defined by means of a suspension of the complexified family of Morse-Sturm boundary value problems. This invariant is defined in terms of the Brouwer degree of an associated determinant map and generalizes the invariant defined in [\textit{M. Musso} et al., Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 25, No. 1, 69--99 (2005; Zbl 1101.58012)]. The authors prove a new spectral flow formula and illustrate the relation between this spectral flow formula and the Hill's determinant formula. Moreover, they exploit this invariant for detecting instability of periodic orbits of a Hamiltonian system. The final appendix contains an overview of basic definitions and properties on the Maslov index and the spectral flow.

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