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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