Lusternik--Schnirelmann theory on general spaces

Conley pairs in geometry - Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory and more

Firstly, we wish to motivate that Conley pairs, realized via Salamon's definition [17], are rather useful building blocks in geometry: Initially we met Conley pairs in an attempt to construct Morse filtrations of free loop spaces [21]. From this fell off quite naturally, firstly, an alternative proof [20] of the cell attachment theorem in Morse theory [13] and, secondly, some ideas [12] how to try to organize the closures of the unstable manifolds of a Morse-Smale gradient flow as a CW decomposition of the underlying manifold. Relaxing non-degeneracy of critical points to isolatedness we use t…

Lusternik-Schnirelmann Theory for a Morse Decomposition

Let $ϕ^t$ be a continuous flow on a metric space $X$ and $I$ be an isolated invariant set with an index pair $(N,L)$ and a Morse decomposition $\{M_i\}^n_{i=1}$. For every category $ν$ on $N/L$, we prove that $ν(N/L)\leq ν([L])+\sum_{i=1}^n ν(M_i)$. As a result if $ϕ^t|_I$ is gradient-like and $X$ is semi-locally contractible, then $ϕ^t$ has at least $ν_H(h(I))-1$ rest points in $I$ where $h(I)$ is the Conley index of $I$ and $ν_H$ is the Homotopy Lusternik-Schnirelmann category.

Lusternik-Schnirelmann Theory and Closed Reeb Orbits

We develop a variant of Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for the shift operator in equivariant Floer and symplectic homology. Our key result is that the spectral invariants are strictly decreasing under the action of the shift operator when periodic orbits are isolated. As an application, we prove new multiplicity results for simple closed Reeb orbits on the standard contact sphere, the unit cotangent bundle to the sphere and some other contact manifolds. We also show that the lower Conley--Zehnder index enjoys a certain recurrence property and revisit and reprove from a different perspective a v…

通过序列和参数化拓扑复杂性研究临界点理论的方法

Approaches to critical point theory via sequential and parametrized topological complexity

本文通过序列和参数化拓扑复杂性方法，研究临界点理论并建立相关下界，同时计算了特定流形的参数化拓扑复杂性。