Jean-Claude Sikorav Explained

Jean-Claude Sikorav (born 21 June 1957) is a French mathematician. He is professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He is specialized 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

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and research papers

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Honors

Sikorav is a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

External links

• • Home page at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Notes and References

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2. Laudenbach, Sikorav, Persistance d'intersection avec la section nulle au cours d'une isotopie hamiltonienne dans un fibre cotangent, Inventiones Mathematicae 82 (1985), no. 2, 349–357
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