Lectures on Morse theory, old and new

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15038-8zbMATH Open0505.58001MaRDI QIDQ4742006FDOQ4742006

Authors: Raoul Bott 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsequivariant Morse theoryindex of geodesicsYang-Mills functinal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02)

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