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zbMath0582.58008MaRDI QIDQ3704636

Melvyn S. Berger

Publication date: 1984

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutionscritical point theorysaddle pointclosed geodesicsYang-Mills functionalconformal deformationnatural constraintsGinzberg-Landau functionalPoincaré's isoperimetric problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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