Morse Theory by Perturbation Methods with Applications to Harmonic Maps

DOI10.2307/1998671zbMath0509.58012OpenAlexW4229989649WikidataQ125101158 ScholiaQ125101158MaRDI QIDQ4747265

Karen K. Uhlenbeck

Publication date: 1981

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1998671

zbMATH Keywords

energy integralvariational problemsRiemannian sectional curvaturesPalais-Smale Morse theorySobolev space of mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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