ABSTRACT

This Research Note explores existence and multiplicity questions for periodic solutions of first order, non-convex Hamiltonian systems. It introduces a new Morse (index) theory that is easier to use, less technical, and more flexible than existing theories and features techniques and results that, until now, have appeared only in scattered journals

chapter 1|42 pages

The Maslov index

chapter 2|20 pages

The relative Morse index

chapter 3|24 pages

Functional setting

chapter 4|32 pages

Superquadratic Hamiltonians

chapter 5|34 pages

Asymptotically linear systems