Morse theory for geodesics in singular conformal metrics

DOI10.4310/CAG.2014.V22.N5.A1MaRDI QIDQ893880zbMATHFDO

Authors Roberto Giambò, Fabio Giannoni, Paolo Piccione

Publication date 20 November 2015

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

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

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)

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.

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