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This paper is a progress report on our efforts to understand the homotopy theory underlying Floer homology. Its objectives are as follows:
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to describe some of our ideas concerning what exactly the Floer homology groups compute;
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to explain what kind of an object we think the «Floer homotopy type» of an infinite dimensional manifold should be;
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to work out, in detail, the Floer homotopy type in some examples.
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Cohen, R.L., Jones, J.D.S., Segal, G.B. (1995). Floer’s infinite dimensional Morse theory and homotopy theory. In: Hofer, H., Taubes, C.H., Weinstein, A., Zehnder, E. (eds) The Floer Memorial Volume. Progress in Mathematics, vol 133. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9217-9_13
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