The E-cohomological Conley index, cup-lengths and the Arnold conjecture on T^2n

DOI10.1515/ANS-2019-2044MaRDI QIDQ2274464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maciej Starostka, N. Waterstraat

Publication date 19 September 2019

Published in Advanced Nonlinear Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09631

zbMATH Keywords

\(E\)-cohomologyArnold conjecturecritical points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: We give a new proof of the strong Arnold conjecture for $1$-periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems on tori, that was first shown by C. Conley and E. Zehnder in 1983. Our proof uses other methods and is shorter than the previous one. We first show that the $E$-cohomological Conley index, that was introduced by the first author recently, has a natural module structure. This yields a new cup-length and a lower bound for the number of critical points of functionals. Then an existence result for the $E$-cohomological Conley index, which applies to the setting of the Arnold conjecture, paves the way to a new proof of it on tori.

Review text

Let \(E\) be a Hilbert space, \(\eta \) be a local flow generated by a Leray-Schauder vector-field on \(E.\) If \(S= \) Inv \(\Omega\) is an isolated invariant set of \(\eta\) with isolating neighbourhood \(\Omega\) then the \(E\)-cohomology \(H^*_E(X, A)\) (see [\textit{A. Abbondandolo}, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 9, No. 2, 325--382 (1997; Zbl 0906.58007)]) of any index pair of \(S\) possesses a module structure over \(H^*_0(\Omega)\). This fact allows the authors to introduce the cup-lenght \(CL(S,\Omega,\eta)\) of an isolated invariant set, which in the case of gradient flows provides a lover bound for the number of critical values of the associated functional. Using the above estimate the authors give a short proof of the Arnold conjecture on \(T^n,\) proved by \textit{C. C. Conley} and \textit{E. Zehnder} [Invent. Math. 73, 33--49 (1983; Zbl 0516.58017)] using the Conley index in finite dimensions.

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