Arnold's conjecture and symplectic reduction (Q679524)

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    Arnold's conjecture and symplectic reduction (English)
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    8 January 1998
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    In the seventies V. I. Arnold conjectured that any exact symplectomorphism of a closed symplectic manifold has at least as many fixed points as the minimal number of critical points for a smooth real-valued function on the manifold. This was proved for several classes of manifolds. In particular, \textit{B. Fortune} [Invent. Math. 81, 29-46 (1985; Zbl 0566.58007)] proved it for \(\mathbb{C} P^n\). Here the authors show that Fortune's approach is universal in the sense that it is possible to translate Arnold's conjecture on any closed symplectic manifold to a critical point problem with symmetry on loops in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) with its standard symplectic structure.
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    symplectic reduction
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    critical points
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    Arnold's conjecture
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