Yet another proof of the Morse index theorem

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2014.12.004MaRDI QIDQ491956zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Portaluri, N. Waterstraat

Publication date 19 August 2015

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5291

zbMATH Keywords

crossing formsgeodesicsMorse index theoremRiemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: We give a new analytical proof of the Morse index theorem for geodesics in Riemannian manifolds.

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