Amount of rotation about a point and the Morse index

DOI10.1007/BF01209299MaRDI QIDQ762815zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John N. Mather

Publication date 1984

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

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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