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Corrigendum: The Conley conjecture for Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle and its analogue for Lagrangian systems

Symplectic Geometry 2011-02-11 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In lines 8-11 of \cite[pp. 2977]{Lu} we wrote: "For integer m3m\ge 3, if MM is CmC^m-smooth and Cm1C^{m-1}-smooth L:R×TMRL:\R\times TM\to\R satisfies the assumptions (L1)-(L3), then the functional Lτ{\cal L}_\tau is C2C^2-smooth, bounded below, satisfies the Palais-Smale condition, and all critical points of it have finite Morse indexes and nullities (see \cite[Prop.4.1, 4.2]{AbF} and \cite{Be})." However, as proved in \cite{AbSc1} the claim that Lτ{\cal L}_\tau is C2C^2-smooth is true if and only if for every (t,q)(t,q) the function vL(t,q,v)v\mapsto L(t,q,v) is a polynomial of degree at most 2. So the arguments in \cite{Lu} is only valid for the physical Hamiltonian in (1.2) and corresponding Lagrangian therein. In this note we shall correct our arguments in \cite{Lu} with a new splitting lemma obtained in \cite{Lu2}.

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@article{arxiv.0909.0609,
  title  = {Corrigendum: The Conley conjecture for Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle and its analogue for Lagrangian systems},
  author = {Guangcun Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0609},
  year   = {2011}
}

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43 pages, Latex; A new corrigendum