Morse theory on banach manifolds

The Morse Theory of critical points was extended by Palais and Smale to a certain class of functions on Hilbert manifolds. However, there are many variational problems in a nonlinear setting which for technical reasons are posed not on Hilbert but on Banach manifolds of mappings. This paper introduces a concept of a multivalued gradient vector field for a function defined on a Banach manifold. Using this concept, the Morse theory is generalized to some kind of Banach manifolds. The first chapter gives a definition of nondegeneracy of critical points for a real valued function defined on a reflexive Banach manifold, and then a handle-body decomposition theorem and Morse inequalities for this manifold are obtained. The second chapter proves the existence of solutions for a differential inclusion for a so-called accretive multi-valued mapping on a Finsler manifold. The third chapter introduces a definition of nondegeneracy of critical points for a real valued function defined on a general Banach manifold and, furthermore, generalizes the Morse handle-body decomposition theorem and the Morse inequalities to the Banach manifold