2024-06-01
We compute the Morse index of a critical submanifold of the energy functional on the loop space of a manifold with constant sectional curvature. The case of constant non-positive sectional curvature is a known result and the case of a sphere has been proved by Klingenberg. We adapt Klingenberg's proof of the case of a sphere to the case of constant sectional curvature, to obtain the possible Morse indices of critical submanifolds of the energy functional.
MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
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N. İ. Şirikçi, MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 0–0, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109935.