Morse index and the stability of closed geodesics

DOI10.1007/S11425-010-0064-0zbMATH Open1209.58012OpenAlexW2130007679MaRDI QIDQ989773FDOQ989773

Authors: Xijun Hu, Shanzhong Sun 

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-010-0064-0

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityclosed geodesicMorse index

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) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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