Special Session 42: Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics

C1 perturbations of a continuum of critical points
Antonio J Urena
Universidad de Granada
Spain
Co-Author(s):    R. Ortega
Abstract:
Given a real-valued function having a nondegenerate compact manifold of critical points, some of these points survive under small C2-perturbations. This is a well-known result in critical point theory. In 1986, Weinstein obtained the analogous conclusions when the perturbation is only C1 and the ambient space is a finite-dimensional manifold. In this work we present a complete proof for C1 perturbations in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. This is a joint work with R. Ortega