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Symplectic geometry
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Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form.
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Symplectic geometry originates with Hamilton's formulation of optical laws.
Daniel S. Freed Karen K. Uhlenbeck Geometry and Quantum Field Theory http://books.google.com/books?id=Hs4uGmcLkmIC&pg=PA1 1995 American Mathematical Society 978-0-8218-8683-0 1
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Category:Geometry