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Stringy Jacobi fields in Morse theory

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 Added by Soon-Tae Hong
 Publication date 2007
  fields Physics
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We consider the variation of the surface spanned by closed strings in a spacetime manifold. Using the Nambu-Goto string action, we induce the geodesic surface equation, the geodesic surface deviation equation which yields a Jacobi field, and we define the index form of a geodesic surface as in the case of point particles to discuss conjugate strings on the geodesic surface.



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