On the spectral flow in Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10231-002-0057-XMaRDI QIDQ2568754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Piccione, Antonio Masiello

Publication date 19 October 2005

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-002-0057-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Review text

Techniques from functional analysis are used in this paper in order to find the differential equation satisfied by the eigenvalues of a smooth family of Fredholm operators obtained from the index form along a geodesic in semi-Riemannian geometry of Lorentzian type. The derived formula is applied to the study of the evolution for the index function and, using a perturbation argument, a version of classical Morse index theorem for stationary Lorentzian manifold is given.

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