• called the symplectic form. The study of symplectic manifolds is called symplectic geometry or symplectic topology. Symplectic manifolds arise naturally...
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    Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds...
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  • In differential geometry, an almost symplectic structure on a differentiable manifold M {\displaystyle M} is a two-form ω {\displaystyle \omega } on M...
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  • Poisson manifold is a smooth manifold endowed with a Poisson structure. The notion of Poisson manifold generalises that of symplectic manifold, which in...
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    classical Lie groups Symplectic manifold, Symplectic matrix, Symplectic vector space, Symplectic representation Unitary group Θ10 "Symplectic group", Encyclopedia...
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  • In mathematics, a symplectomorphism or symplectic map is an isomorphism in the category of symplectic manifolds. In classical mechanics, a symplectomorphism...
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    the manifold, whose equivalence is the content of the Frobenius theorem. Contact geometry is in many ways an odd-dimensional counterpart of symplectic geometry...
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    nondegenerate 2-form ω, called the symplectic form. A symplectic manifold is an almost symplectic manifold for which the symplectic form ω is closed: dω = 0. A...
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  • a Kähler manifold is a manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure....
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  • manifold, but there are almost complex manifolds that are not complex manifolds. Almost complex structures have important applications in symplectic geometry...
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    to be done. A Riemannian metric on a manifold allows distances and angles to be measured. Symplectic manifolds serve as the phase spaces in the Hamiltonian...
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  • A symplectic space may refer to: Symplectic manifold Symplectic vector space This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Symplectic...
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    Floer homology (category Symplectic topology)
    infinite-dimensional manifold and a real valued function on it. In the symplectic version, this is the free loop space of a symplectic manifold with the symplectic action...
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  • W(V). A symplectic manifold is a smooth manifold with a smoothly-varying closed symplectic form on each tangent space. Maslov index A symplectic representation...
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    angle. A symplectic manifold is a manifold equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. This condition forces symplectic manifolds to be even-dimensional...
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  • algebra Symplectic integrator Symplectic manifold Symplectic matrix Symplectic representation Symplectic vector space, a vector space with a symplectic bilinear...
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    symplectic manifold can be used to define a Hamiltonian system. The function H is known as "the Hamiltonian" or "the energy function." The symplectic...
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  • hyperkähler manifolds have been extensively studied using techniques from algebraic geometry, sometimes under the name holomorphically symplectic manifolds. The...
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  • (to H {\displaystyle H} ). Several structures on manifolds, such as a complex structure, a symplectic structure, or a Kähler structure, are G-structures...
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  • a symplectic vector field is one whose flow preserves a symplectic form. That is, if ( M , ω ) {\displaystyle (M,\omega )} is a symplectic manifold with...
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  • Topological manifold Almost complex manifold Almost symplectic manifold Calibrated manifold Complex manifold Contact manifold CR manifold Finsler manifold Hermitian...
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  • is based upon the flows generated by a smooth Hamiltonian over a symplectic manifold. The flows are symplectomorphisms and hence obey Liouville's theorem...
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  • Lagrangian foliation (category Symplectic geometry)
    mathematics, a Lagrangian foliation or polarization is a foliation of a symplectic manifold, whose leaves are Lagrangian submanifolds. It is one of the steps...
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  • specifically in symplectic geometry, the symplectic cut is a geometric modification on symplectic manifolds. Its effect is to decompose a given manifold into two...
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  • In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named...
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  • Volume form (category Integration on manifolds)
    {\displaystyle n} th exterior power of the symplectic form on a symplectic manifold is a volume form. Many classes of manifolds have canonical volume forms: they...
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    Lagrangian submanifold L into a symplectic manifold M, and π : M ↠ B is a Lagrangian fibration of the symplectic manifold M. The caustic is a subset of...
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  • a tool associated with a Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold, used to construct conserved quantities for the action. The momentum...
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  • Kähler manifold. Any symplectic manifold admits a compatible almost complex structure making it into an almost Kähler manifold. A Kähler manifold is an...
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  • and embeddability of manifolds in Euclidean space. Suppose a manifold X {\displaystyle X} is embedded in to a symplectic manifold ( M , ω ) {\displaystyle...
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