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A new approach to the Morse-Conley theory and some applications. (English) Zbl 0778.58011
The author attempted extending the Conley theory to nonlocally compact spaces. The main part of this paper is a modification of the author’s earlier paper [Recent advances in Hamiltonian systems, Proc. Int. Conf., L’Aquila/Italy 1986, 1-52 (1987; Zbl 0665.58007)].
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 5.8e+06 Abstract critical point theory
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