Special Session 24: Geometric methods in spectral theory of traveling waves and patterns
K-theoretic Methods in the Computation of the Maslov-Index
Nils Waterstraat
MLU Halle-Wittenberg Germany
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Abstract:
We review some recent results on a connection between the spectral flow, topological K-theory and the Maslov index, that have yielded applications to homoclinics of Hamiltonian systems and geodesics in semi-Riemannian manifolds.