The Morse index of Chaperon's generating families

zbMATH Open1372.37034arXiv1507.08344MaRDI QIDQ5269964FDOQ5269964

Marco Mazzucchelli

Publication date: 28 June 2017

Abstract: This is an expository paper devoted to the Morse index of Chaperon's generating families of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. After reviewing the construction of such generating families, we present Bott's iteration theory in this setting: we study how the Morse index of a critical point corresponding to an iterated periodic orbit depends on the order of iteration of the orbit. We also investigate the precise dependence of the Morse index from the choice of the generating family associated to a given Hamiltonian diffeomorphism, which will allow to see the Morse index as a Maslov index for the linearized Hamiltonian flow in the symplectic group. We will conclude the survey with a proof that the classical Morse index from Tonelli Lagrangian dynamics coincides with the Maslov index.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08344

zbMATH Keywords

Maslov indexMorse indexHamiltonian diffeomorphismsTonelli Lagrangian dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Cited In (5)

• Closed geodesics on reversible Finsler 2-spheres
• Closed geodesics with local homology in maximal degree on non-compact manifolds
• On the existence of infinitely many closed geodesics on non-compact manifolds
• Closed geodesics on reversible Finsler 2-spheres
• On Tonelli periodic orbits with low energy on surfaces

This page was built for publication: The Morse index of Chaperon's generating families

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5269964)