A smooth pseudo-gradient for the Lagrangian action functional

zbMATH Open1185.37145arXiv0812.4364MaRDI QIDQ3645985FDOQ3645985

Alberto Abbondandolo, Matthias Schwarz

Publication date: 18 November 2009

Abstract: We study the action functional associated to a smooth Lagrangian function on the cotangent bundle of a manifold, having quadratic growth in the velocities. We show that, although the action functional is in general not twice differentiable on the Hilbert manifold consisting of H^1 curves, it is a Lyapunov function for some smooth Morse-Smale vector field, under the generic assumption that all the critical points are non-degenerate. This fact is sufficient to associate a Morse complex to the Lagrangian action functional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4364

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