Conjugate points on spacelike geodesics or pseudo-self-adjoint Morse-Sturm-Liouville systems

DOI10.2140/pjm.1994.164.321zbMath0799.58018OpenAlexW2017232082MaRDI QIDQ1328999

Adam D. Helfer

Publication date: 17 November 1994

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1994.164.321

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointssemi-Riemannian geometrySturm-Liouville systemsMorse Index Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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