The Arnold conjecture, Floer homology and symplectic homology

Author(s):  
Helmut Hofer ◽  
Eduard Zehnder
Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon

This chapter contains a proof of the Arnold conjecture for the standard torus, which is based on the discrete symplectic action. The symplectic part of this proof is very easy. However, for completeness of the exposition, one section is devoted to a fairly detailed discussion of the relevant Conley index theory and of Ljusternik–Schnirelmann theory. Closely related to the problem of finding symplectic fixed points is the Lagrangian intersection problem. The chapter outlines a proof of Arnold’s conjecture for cotangent bundles that again uses the discrete symplectic action, this time to construct generating functions for Lagrangian submanifolds. The chapter ends with a brief outline of the construction and applications of Floer homology.


2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 957-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Cieliebak ◽  
Urs Frauenfelder ◽  
Alexandru Oancea

1998 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Liu ◽  
Gang Tian

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (06) ◽  
pp. 1350014
Author(s):  
FATEMEH DOUROUDIAN

Using a Heegaard diagram for the pullback of a knot K ⊂ S3 in its double branched cover Σ2(K), we give a combinatorial proof for the invariance of the associated knot Floer homology over ℤ.


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Simon Levine

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