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Degenerate Arnold fixed-point obstruction: The quadric is a closed connected symplectic six-manifold and has exactly three fixed points while Crit equals four for arbitrary smooth functions. Degenerate fixed points are permitted by the precise site definition, so this is a direct counterexample.
The claimed counterexample lies within the question’s hypotheses and contradicts its universal conclusion.
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Arnold Conjecture on Hamiltonian Fixed Points
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Degenerate Arnold fixed-point obstruction: A Hamiltonian map of the complex quadric threefold is claimed to have exactly three fixed points although its critical number and rational cup-length lower bound are four. At least one fixed point is degenerate.Mathematical statement of the claimed result
Mathematical claim 1.
For the complex quadric $Q^3=\{[z]\in\mathbb{CP}^4:\sum_{i=0}^4z_i^2=0\}$ with restricted Fubini--Study symplectic form, the claim constructs a smooth Hamiltonian diffeomorphism $\phi$ with \[\#\operatorname{Fix}(\phi)=3<4=\operatorname{Crit}(Q^3)=\operatorname{cuplength}(Q^3;\mathbb Q).\] At least one fixed point is degenerate. Here $\operatorname{Crit}$ minimizes over all smooth functions, including degenerate ones; the cup-length convention is the longest nonvanishing product of positive-degree classes, with one added to that count.Outline of the argument
Degenerate Arnold fixed-point obstruction: A finite-order Hamiltonian map is perturbed by the flow of an invariant extension of a function on its fixed locus. A power identity excludes new fixed points elsewhere, and symmetric criticality identifies the remaining fixed points with critical points on that locus. A suitably chosen function on the quadric surface then supplies the three-point count.Formal verification
Family 347 describes Lean coverage for the degenerate quadric critical-number obstruction; the nondegenerate ordinary and stable-Morse constructions are separate.Degenerate Arnold fixed-point obstruction: The manuscript links ArnoldCounterexample.lean (declaration OAI.ArnoldCounterexample.main).
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- OpenAI, Three fixed points on the symplectic quadric threefold, 2026-09-23; citation key
OAI:A-degenerate-counterexample-to-the-critical-number-Arnold-bound-September-23-2026. PDF (GitHub); PDF (direct); Manuscript page and citation; Latest version; Statement source: thm:counterexample. - Family 347: Lean scope.
- Comparator ArnoldCounterexample.json.
- Comparator ArnoldCounterexample.lean.
- OpenAI catalogue entry.