Conjugate points and Maslov index in locally symmetric semi-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/j.difgeo.2006.02.007zbMath1111.53039arXivmath/0505160WikidataQ115357851 ScholiaQ115357851MaRDI QIDQ2432702

Paolo Piccione, Miguel Ángel Javaloyes

Publication date: 25 October 2006

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505160

zbMATH Keywords

Maslov index; Conley-Zehnder index; locally symmetric manifolds; Jordan signatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C35: Differential geometry of symmetric spaces

53D12: Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

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Curvature and conjugate points in Lorentz symmetric spaces, Penrose’s singularity theorem in a Finsler spacetime

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