Publication:3704636
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zbMath0582.58008MaRDI QIDQ3704636
Publication date: 1984
periodic solutions; critical point theory; saddle point; closed geodesics; Yang-Mills functional; conformal deformation; natural constraints; Ginzberg-Landau functional; Poincaré's isoperimetric problem
58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces
58E30: Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces
53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences
53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry
58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)
