Symplectic Manifold Natural & Formal Sciences Dictionary Definition A smooth even-dimensional manifold equipped with a closed, nondegenerate differential 2-form (the symplectic form) that provides a bilinear pairing on each tangent space and underlies Hamiltonian mechanics.
Symplectic Manifold Natural & Formal Sciences Dictionary Definition A smooth even-dimensional manifold equipped with a closed, nondegenerate differential 2-form (the symplectic form) that provides a bilinear pairing on each tangent space and underlies Hamiltonian mechanics.