Amount of rotation about a point and the Morse index

DOI10.1007/BF01209299zbMATH Open0558.58010MaRDI QIDQ762815FDOQ762815

Authors: John N. Mather 

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Morse indexvariational techniquesmonotone twist maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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• Existence of orbits with non-zero torsion for certain types of surface diffeomorphisms
• Topological entropy of standard type monotone twist maps

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