Amount of rotation about a point and the Morse index

DOI10.1007/BF01209299zbMath0558.58010MaRDI QIDQ762815

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

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

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Torsion and linking number for a surface diffeomorphism ⋮ The periodic orbits of an area preserving twist map ⋮ Existence of orbits with non-zero torsion for certain types of surface diffeomorphisms ⋮ Twist number and order properties of periodic orbits ⋮ Topological entropy of standard type monotone twist maps ⋮ Ghost circles for twist maps ⋮ Isospectral deformations of random Jacobi operators ⋮ Generalized Arnol'd tongues for twist maps of the annulus

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