A Symplectic Fixed Point Theorem and Floer–Novikov Theory in the Presence of an Infinite Fundamental Group
摘要
A. Floer invented what is now called Floer theory in order to prove Arnold’s conjecture for fixed points of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. A symplectic diffeomorphism may not have fixed points, in general. There is a variant of Floer’s construction, i.e., Floer–Novikov theory, which we studied in previous works. Using Floer–Novikov homology associated with a certain covering space, we show a new existence result for a 1-periodic orbit of a 1-periodic family of symplectic vector fields on certain product symplectic manifolds with the prescribed Conley–Zehnder index, although Floer–Novikov homology vanishes in that degree.