Genericity of nondegenerate critical points and Morse geodesic functionals

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2009.58.3642zbMATH Open1181.58010arXiv0804.3724OpenAlexW2962915688MaRDI QIDQ3395907FDOQ3395907

Authors: L. Biliotti, Miguel Angel Javaloyes, Paolo Piccione 

Publication date: 15 September 2009

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a family of variational problems on a Hilbert manifold parameterized by an open subset of a Banach manifold, and we discuss the genericity of the nondegeneracy condition for the critical points. Based on an idea of B. White, we prove an abstract genericity result that employs the infinite dimensional Sard--Smale theorem. Applications are given by proving the genericity of metrics without degenerate geodesics between fixed endpoints in general (non compact) semi-Riemannian manifolds, in orthogonally split semi-Riemannian manifolds and in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. We discuss the genericity property also in stationary Lorentzian manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3724

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zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldtransversalityCauchy surfaceKilling vector fieldconnectionsemi-Riemannian metric\(C^k\)-Whitney type Banach space of tensor fieldsChristoffel tensorglobally hyperbolic Lorentzian metricstationary Lorentzian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Critical metrics (58E11)

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