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Instanton homology and symplectic xed points

A gradient flow of a Morse function on a compact Riemannian manifold is said to be of Morse-Smale type if the stable and unstable manifolds of any two critical points intersect transversally. For such a Morse-Smale gradient flow there is a chain complex generated by the critical points and graded by the Morse index. The boundary operator has as its (x, y)-entry the number of gradient flow lines running from x to y counted with appropriate signs whenever the difference of the Morse indices is 1. The homology of this chain complex agrees with the homology of the underlying manifold M and this can be used to prove the Morse inequalities [30] (see also [24]). Around 1986 Floer generalized this idea and discovered a powerful new approach to infinite dimensional Morse theory now called Floer homology. He used this approach to prove the Arnold conjecture for monotone symplectic manifolds [12] and discovered a new invariant for homology 3-spheres called instanton homology [11]. This invariant can roughly be described as the homology of a chain complex generated by the irreducible representations of the fundamental group of the homology 3-sphere M in the Lie group SU(2). These representations can be thought of as flat connections on the principal bundle M × SU(2) and they appear as the critical points of the Chern-Simons functional on the infinite dimensional configuration space of connections on this bundle modulo gauge equivalence. The gradient flow lines of the Chern-Simons functional are the self-dual Yang-Mills instantons on the 4-manifold M ×R and