Virtual neighborhoods and pseudo-holomorphic curves (Q4262822)

The virtual neighborhood technique developed by the author in [Ronald J. Stern (ed.), Topics in symplectic \(4\)-manifolds, First Int. Press Lect. Ser. 1, 101-116 (1998; Zbl 0939.57024)] is extended to produce a stable compactification of the moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves in a compact symplectic manifold~\((V,\omega)\). Here it is important to notice that the author does not need any semipositivity assumption on~\([\omega]\) and~\(c_1(V)\). The author gives several applications of this method. An equivariant quantum cohomology is constructed using a generalisation of Gromov-Witten invariants to families of symplectic manifolds. It is shown that Floer homology can be defined on all compact symplectic manifolds. Finally, a version of the Arnol'd conjecture is proved for general compact symplectic manifolds~\((V,\omega)\), which says that if a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism of~\(V\) has only non-degenerate fixed points, then the number of fixed points is at least the total Betti number of \(V\). Related results have been obtained by \textit{K. Fukaya} and \textit{K. Ono} [Topology 38, No. 5, 933-1048 (1999; Zbl 0946.53047)] and by \textit{G. Liu} and \textit{T. Tian} [J. Differ. Geom. 49, No. 1, 1-74 (1998; Zbl 0917.58009)].