On the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of symplectic manifolds and the Arnold conjecture

DOI10.1007/PL00004709MaRDI QIDQ1297980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuli Rudyak, John Oprea

Publication date 23 September 1999

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9708007

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsHurewicz mapLyusternik-Schnirelman categorysymplectomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: We prove that the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category $cat(M)$ of a closed symplectic manifold $(M,omega)$ equals the dimension $dim(M)$ provided that the symplectic cohomology class vanishes on the image of the Hurewicz homomorphism. This holds, in particular, when $p{i}_2(M)=0$. The Arnold conjecture asserts that the number of fixed points of a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism of $M$ is greater than or equal to the number of critical points of some function on $M$. A modified form of the conjecture, replacing the latter quantity (via Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory) by $cup(M)+1$, has been proved recently by various authors using techniques of Floer. The first author has also recently shown that the original form of the conjecture holds when $cat(M)=dim(M)$. Thus, this paper completes the proof of the original Arnold conjecture for closed symplectic manifolds with, for example, $p{i}_2(M)=0$.

Review text

\textit{V. I. Arnold} [Appendix 9 in ``Mathematical methods in classical mechanics Nauka, Moskva) (1989; Zbl 0692.70003)] obtained a relation between the number of fixed points of self-diffeomorphisms (exact or Hamiltonian) of a closed symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\) and the minimal number of critical points of smooth \(C^\infty\)-functions on \(M\). Here, by usage of a fundamental property of category weight, it is shown that this relation is equality for any closed symplectic manifold whose symplectic form vanishes on the image of the Hurewicz map.

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