On the Maslov index of multi-pulse homoclinic orbits

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0155MaRDI QIDQ3561990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frédéric Chardard, Frédéric Dias, Thomas J. Bridges

Publication date 19 May 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/vol465/issue2109/

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationexterior algebrageometric numerical integrationHamiltonian systemsLagrangian planesMaslov index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for dynamical systems (37C29) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Hyperbolic singular points with homoclinic trajectories in dynamical systems (37G20) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Applications of variational problems to control theory (58E25)

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