Spectral flow, Brouwer degree and Hill's determinant formula

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2020.05.030zbMATH Open1444.58007arXiv2006.00956OpenAlexW3034116609MaRDI QIDQ2189804FDOQ2189804

Li Wu, Alessandro Portaluri

Publication date: 16 June 2020

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic boundary value problemstrace formulaBrouwer degreespectral flowHill's determinant formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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