Jean-Claude Sikorav

Jean-Claude Sikorav

Jean-Claude Sikorav is a French mathematician. He is professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is a specialist in symplectic geometry.[1]

Main contributions

Sikorav is known for his proof, joint with François Laudenbach, of the Arnold conjecture for Lagrangian intersections in cotangent bundles,[2] as well as for introducing generating families in symplectic topology.

Selected publications

Sikorav is one of fifteen members of a group of mathematicians who published the book Uniformisation des surfaces de Riemann under the pseudonym of Henri Paul de Saint-Gervais.[3]

He has written the survey

and research papers

Honors

Sikorav is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

References

  1. See here
  2. Laudenbach, Sikorav, Persistance d'intersection avec la section nulle au cours d'une isotopie hamiltonienne dans un fibre cotangent, Invent. Math. 82 (1985), no. 2, 349–357
  3. de Saint-Gervais, Henri Paul (2010), Uniformisation des surfaces de Riemann: Retour sur un théorème centenaire, ENS Éditions, Lyon, ISBN 978-2-84788-233-9, MR 2768303.

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