Geometry and topology · Oct 6, 2026

Counterexamples to stable-Morse and strong Arnold fixed-point bounds

Disproves stable-Morse lower bounds for nondegenerate Hamiltonian fixed points: on simply connected closed Kähler manifolds of real dimension 22, the deficit below the stable Morse number is unbounded. A separate Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of the complex quadric threefold has exactly three fixed points, fewer than the four critical points required of every smooth function.

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