Morse theory for geodesics in singular conformal metrics

DOI10.4310/CAG.2014.V22.N5.A1zbMATH Open1329.53058arXiv1406.0644MaRDI QIDQ893880FDOQ893880

Authors: Roberto Giambò, Fabio Giannoni, Paolo Piccione 

Publication date: 20 November 2015

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the use of degenerate Jacobi metrics for the study of brake orbits and homoclinics, we develop a Morse theory for geodesics in conformal metrics having conformal factors vanishing on a regular hypersurface of a Riemannian manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0644

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltoniantotal energybrake orbitsMaupertuis principlehomoclinicsdegenerate Jacobi metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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