A Morse Index Theorem and bifurcation for perturbed geodesics on Semi-Riemannian Manifolds

A Morse-Smale index theorem for indefinite elliptic systems and bifurcation

We generalise the semi-Riemannian Morse index theorem to elliptic systems of partial differential equations on star-shaped domains. Moreover, we apply our theorem to bifurcation from a branch of trivial solutions of semilinear systems, where the bifurcation parameter is introduced by shrinking the domain to a point. This extends recent results of the authors for scalar equations.

拉格朗日系统与测地线的分支现象 I

Bifurcations for Lagrangian systems and geodesics I

本文研究了具有不同边界条件和约束的拉格朗日系统中的分支现象，通过三种主要配置探讨了莫尔斯理论与多重解存在的关系，提出了分支条件的必要充分条件。

Positive solutions for singularly perturbed nonlinear elliptic problem on manifolds via Morse theory

Given (M, g0) we consider the problem -ε^2Delta_{g0+h}u + u = (u+)^{p-1} with (ε, h) \in (0, ε0) \times Bρ. Here Bρ is a ball centered at 0 with radius ρ in the Banach space of all Ck symmetric covariant 2-tensors on M. Using the Poincaré polynomial of M, we give an estimate on the number of nonconstant solutions with low energy for (ε, h) belonging to a residual subset of (0, ε0) \times Bρ, for (ε0, ρ) small enough.

Quantum corrections to the holomorphic structure of the mirror bundle along the caustic and the bifurcation locus

Given, in the Lagrangian torus fibration $R^4\to R^2$, a Lagrangian submanifold $L$, endowed with a trivial flat connection, the corresponding mirror object is constructed on the dual fibration by means of a family of Morse homologies associated to the generating function of $L$, and it is provided with a holomorphic structure. Morse homology, however, is not defined along the caustic $C$ of $L$ or along the bifurcation locus $B$, where the family does not satisfy the Morse-Smale condition. The holomorphic structure is extended to the subset $C\cup B$, except cusps, yielding the so called quan…

Morse homology for the heat flow

We use the heat flow on the loop space of a closed Riemannian manifold to construct an algebraic chain complex. The chain groups are generated by perturbed closed geodesics. The boundary operator is defined in the spirit of Floer theory by counting, modulo time shift, heat flow trajectories that converge asymptotically to nondegenerate closed geodesics of Morse index difference one.

Perturbed closed geodesics are periodic orbits: Index and Transversality

We study the classical action functional $\SMC_V$ on the free loop space of a closed, finite dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ and the symplectic action $\AMC_V$ on the free loop space of its cotangent bundle. The critical points of both functionals can be identified with the set of perturbed closed geodesics in $M$. The potential $V\in C^\infty(M\times S^1,\R)$ serves as perturbation and we show that both functionals are Morse for generic $V$. In this case we prove that the Morse index of a critical point $x$ of $\SMC_V$ equals minus its Conley-Zehnder index when viewed as a critical point …