Abstract
The rectangular peg problem, an extension of the square peg problem, is easy to outline but challenging to prove through elementary methods. In this talk, I discuss how to show the existence and a generic multiplicity result assuming the Jordan curve is smooth, utilizing Morse-Bott Floer homology. In particular, we obtain a convenient formula for computing the algebraic intersection number of cleanly intersecting Lagrangian submanifolds, which is well consistent with the Euler characteristic of Morse-Bott Floer homology in the spirit of "categorification''.