A Morse index theorem for perturbed geodesics on semi-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2005.004MaRDI QIDQ2386872zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Monica Musso, Jacobo Pejsachowicz, Alessandro Portaluri

Publication date 25 August 2005

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311147

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointsperturbed geodesicssemi-Riemannian manifoldsspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations connected with nontransversal intersection in dynamical systems (37G25) Forms (bilinear, sesquilinear, multilinear) (47A07) (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: Perturbed geodesics are trajectories of particles moving on a semi-Riemannian manifold in the presence of a potential. Our purpose here is to extend to perturbed geodesics on semi-Riemannian manifolds the well known Morse Index Theorem. When the metric is indefinite, the Morse index of the energy functional becomes infinite and hence, in order to obtain a meaningful statement, we substitute the Morse index by its relative form, given by the spectral flow of an associated family of index forms. We also introduce a new counting for conjugate points, which need not to be isolated in this context, and prove that the relative Morse index equals the total number of conjugate points. Finally we study the relation with the Maslov index of the flow induced on the Lagrangian Grassmannian.

Review text

The trajectories of particles moving on a semi-Riemannian manifold in the presence of a time-dependent potential are called perturbed geodesics. Using the special flow of an associated family of index forms the authors present a version of the Morse index theorem in this setting. Then the generalized Morse index equals the total number of conjugate points.

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