The Arnold conjecture for Clifford symplectic pencils (Q375874)

The authors obtain a result which generalizes the Hamiltonian Arnold conjecture. They consider as a domain any closed manifold \(M\), endowed with a frame of \(r\) divergence free vector fields, satisfying a certain regularity condition, and as a target, a manifold \(W\), endowed with a Clifford pencil (a linear space with special properties) of \(r\) symplectic structures. They prove that on the space of null-homotopic maps from \(M\) to \(W\) there exists an action functional, whose number of critical points is at least the sum of Betti numbers of W (resp. at least the cup-length plus one) in the non-degenerate case (resp. in the case of general Hamiltonians) (see Theorem 2.2). The original Arnold conjecture can be obtained from the above theorem, by taking \(r = 1\) and \(M = S^1\). The same theorem yields the result from [\textit{V. L. Ginzburg} and \textit{D. Hein}, Int. J. Math. 23, No. 8, Article ID 1250077, 15p. (2012; Zbl 1247.53097)], when \(M=\mathrm{SU}(2)\) or when the target is hyper-Kähler and the domain an arbitrary torus. The result proved in [\textit{S. Hohloch} et al., Geom. Topol. 13, No. 5, 2543--2617 (2009; Zbl 1220.53099)] follows from the non-degenerate case of Theorem 2.2, when the domain is \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) or \(\mathbb T^3\) and the target is hyper-Kähler.