ABSTRACT

In the sixties, Arnold formulated some conjectures on the number of fixed points of symplectic diffeomorphisms, which generalize Poincare’s last geo­ metric theorem. The aim of this chapter is to show Conley and Zehnder’s proof of these conjectures for the 27V-torus, and Fortune’s argument for the complex projective space. We will also discuss briefly the existence of periodic points of higher period.