Morse index and deformations of Hamiltonian systems (Q761683)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3888574
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Morse index and deformations of Hamiltonian systems
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3888574

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    Morse index and deformations of Hamiltonian systems (English)
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    The author considers the periodic problem of the variational calculus and proves the theorem: The Morse index of a hyperbolic extremal \(x_ 0\in H^ 1(S,M^ n)\) equals the doubled number of the instability domain to which the corresponding system of Jacobi equations belongs.
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    periodic problem
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    variational calculus
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    instability domain
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    Jacobi equations
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