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Critical Point Theory for Lagrangian Systems

Critical Point Theory for Lagrangian Systems

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Series: Progress in Mathematics, Book 293

General MathematicsGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 3034807821
ISBN13: 9783034807821
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Jan 26 2014
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Lagrangian systems constitute a very important and old class in dynamics. Their origin dates back to the end of the eighteenth century, with Joseph-Louis Lagrange's reformulation of classical mechanics. The main feature of Lagrangian dynamics is its variational flavor: orbits are extremal points of an action functional. The development of critical point theory in the twentieth century provided a powerful machinery to investigate existence and multiplicity questions for orbits of Lagrangian systems. This monograph gives a modern account of the application of critical point theory, and more specifically Morse theory, to Lagrangian dynamics, with particular emphasis toward existence and multiplicity of periodic orbits of non-autonomous and time-periodic systems.

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