Index computations in Rabinowitz Floer homology

DOI10.1007/S11784-011-0047-YMaRDI QIDQ644458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Will J. Merry, Gabriel P. Paternain

Publication date 4 November 2011

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3870

zbMATH Keywords

Conley-Zehnder indexRabinowitz Floer homologyaction functional, Morse index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

Abstract: In this note we study two index questions. In the first we establish the relationship between the Morse indices of the free time action functional and the fixed time action functional. The second is related to Rabinowitz Floer homology. Our index computations are based on a correction term which is defined as follows: around a non-degenerate Hamiltonian orbit lying in a fixed energy level a well-known theorem says that one can find a whole cylinder of orbits parametrized by the energy. The correction term is determined by whether the periods of the orbits are increasing or decreasing as one moves up the orbit cylinder. We also provide an example to show that, even above the Ma~n'e critical value, the periods may be increasing thus producing a jump in the Morse index of the free time action functional in relation to the Morse index of the fixed time action functional.

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