Linear instability for periodic orbits of non-autonomous Lagrangian systems

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ABCB0BMaRDI QIDQ5147941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Portaluri, Li Wu, Ran Yang

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05864

zbMATH Keywords

linear instabilityMaslov indexnon-autonomous Lagrangian functionsperiodic orbitsspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: Inspired by the classical Poincar'e criterion about the instability of orientation preserving minimizing closed geodesics on surfaces, we investigate the relation intertwining the instability and the variational properties of periodic solutions of a non-autonomous Lagrangian on a finite dimensional Riemannian manifold. We establish a general criterion for a priori detecting the linear instability of a periodic orbit on a Riemannian manifold for a (maybe not Legendre convex) non-autonomous Lagrangian simply by looking at the parity of the spectral index, which is the right substitute of the Morse index in the framework of strongly indefinite variational problems and defined in terms of the spectral flow of a path of Fredholm quadratic forms on a Hilbert bundle.

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