scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1795322

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Authors Francesco Mercuri, Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date 29 October 2002

zbMATH Keywords

differential equations of Morse-Sturm typeJacobi equationMaslov indexMorse indexsemi-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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