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

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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 pi2(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, pi2(M)=0.




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