Arnold's fixed-point conjecture for Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms

Let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a compact symplectic manifold, and let f ⁣:MMf\colon M\to M be a symplectomorphism exactly homotopic to the identity. A fixed point of ff is nondegenerate if its differential is nonsingular. A Morse function on MM is a smooth function whose critical points are all nondegenerate.

Arnold's conjecture. The number of fixed points of ff satisfies

{fixed points of f}min{critical points of a smooth function on M}.\left|\{\text{fixed points of }f\}\right|\geq \min\left|\{\text{critical points of a smooth function on }M\}\right|.

If all fixed points are nondegenerate, then

{nondegenerate fixed points of f}min{critical points of a Morse function on M}i=02ndimHi(M,R).\left|\{\text{nondegenerate fixed points of }f\}\right|\geq \min\left|\{\text{critical points of a Morse function on }M\}\right|\geq \sum_{i=0}^{2n}\dim H^i(M,\mathbb{R}).

This is a fundamental fixed-point problem in symplectic geometry. The conjecture has been proven using Floer homology by Conley--Zehnder, Floer, Hofer--Salamon, Ono, Fukaya--Ono, and Liu--Tian.

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Primary source

Nima Moshayedi, “Lectures on Symplectic Geometry, Poisson Geometry, Deformation Quantization and Quantum Field Theory”, arXiv:2012.14662 (2020).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1810.04924, arXiv:1609.04776.

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