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Symplectic Manifolds 36 However, not every even-dimensional manifold has a symplectic struoture. In AEBISCHER et al. 3) is given the example of M = S4; however, this uses a cohomological result (see Appendix C), which we should not yet go into. I. 2. The map F is called symplectic, or a morphism of symplectic manifolds, so long as rw' = w. Given a symplectic diffeomorphism F, F-I is also symplectic, and F is called a symplectomorphism. Sp (M) denotes the group of symplectomorphisms from M to itself.

1 from STERNBERG ([St], p. 90), which says that for every mo E M there exist a neighborhood U of mo, an e > 0 and a family of differentiable maps Ft : U M with 42 2. Symplectic Manifolds i) F: (-E,e)xU - M, (t, m) Ft(m) is differentiable, ii) for Iti, IsI, Is + tj < e and m E U with Ft(m) E U, we have Fa+t(m) = FF(Ft(m)), iii) form E U, Xm is a tangent vector at t = 0 to the curve t ,-+ Ft (m). 4 as well as to ABRAHAM-MARSDEN ([AM], pp. 61-67). 6. (Darboux's Theorem) Let wo and wi be two nondegenerate and closed forms of degree 2 on a 2n-dimensional manifold M with wok,,, = wi Im for some m E M.

Prove this last comment. 4. Kiihler manifolds A Kuhler manifold is, roughly speaking, a complex n-manifold (thus the transformation functions between the charts are holomorphic), equipped with a Kiihler metric, that is, a hernitian metric for which the associated 2 form w is closed. This metric was introduced by KAHLER in 1932 [K], and taken up by WEIL [We] among others, and has, because of the peculiar properties of Kahler manifolds, become particularly significant. These manifolds form an important class of examples of symplectic manifolds.

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