The Maslov index and the spectral flow-revisited

DOI10.1186/S13663-019-0655-6zbMATH Open1474.53294arXiv1808.08464OpenAlexW2888655305WikidataQ128494105 ScholiaQ128494105MaRDI QIDQ2632939FDOQ2632939

Authors: Marek Izydorek, Joanna Janczewska, N. Waterstraat 

Publication date: 15 May 2019

Published in: Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an elementary proof of a celebrated theorem of Cappell, Lee and Miller which relates the Maslov index of a pair of paths of Lagrangian subspaces to the spectral flow of an associated path of selfadjoint first-order operators. We particularly pay attention to the continuity of the latter path of operators, where we consider the gap-metric on the set of all closed operators on a Hilbert space. Finally, we obtain from Cappell, Lee and Miller's theorem a spectral flow formula for linear Hamiltonian systems which generalises a recent result of Hu and Portaluri.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08464

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemsMaslov indexspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Spectral flows (58J30) General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06)

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