Iteration of closed geodesics in stationary Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00209-007-0274-5MaRDI QIDQ943387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. L. de Lima, Paolo Piccione, Miguel Angel Javaloyes

Publication date 9 September 2008

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0589

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldMorse indexstationary Lorentzian manifoldslinearized Poincaré

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: Following the lines of a celebrated result by R. Bott (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 9, 1956) we study the Morse index of the iterated of a closed geodesic in stationary Lorentzian manifolds, or, more generally, of a closed Lorentzian geodesic that admits a timelike periodic Jacobi field. Given one such closed geodesic $gamma$, we prove the existence of a locally constant integer valued map $Lambd{a}_{g}amma$ on the unit circle with the property that the Morse index of the iterated $gamm{a}^N$ is equal, up to a correction term $epsilo{n}_{g}ammain0,1$, to the sum of the values of $Lambd{a}_{g}amma$ at the $N$-th roots of unity. The discontinuities of $Lambd{a}_{g}amma$ occur at a finite number of points of the unit circle, that are special eigenvalues of the linearized Poincar'e map of $gamma$. We discuss some applications of the theory.

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