Morse index theorem of Lagrangian systems and stability of brake orbit

DOI10.1007/S10884-018-9711-XMaRDI QIDQ2297206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xijun Hu, Li Wu, Ran Yang

Publication date 18 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02018

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian systemsMaslov indexMorse indexself-adjoint boundary conditionsstability of brake orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove Morse index theorem of Lagrangian system with any self-adjoint boundary conditions. Based on it, we give some nontrivial estimation on the difference of Morse indices. As an application, we get a new criterion for the stability problem of brake periodic orbit.

Review text

The paper is focused on the Morse index theory of a Lagrangian system with general boundary conditions. More precisely, let \(\mathcal{F}(x)=\int _0^TL(t, x, \dot{x})dt,\) where \(x\in W^{1, 2}([0, T], \mathbb{R}^n)\) and \(L\in C^2([0, T]\oplus \mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{R})\) satisfying a Legendre convexity condition. The linearization of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation gives a Sturm-Liouville self-adjoint operator \(\mathcal{A}\). For a critical point \(x\) of \(\mathcal{F}\) its Morse index is \(m^{-}(\mathcal{A})\), which corresponds to the number of negative eigenvalues of \(\mathcal{A}\). The first main result, namely Theorem 1.1, gives an estimate for the difference of two Morse indices. As an application, Theorem 4.5 states that for a minimizer brake orbit all eigenvalues of the monodromy matrix are real and positive.

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