Symplectic Topology and Capacities
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چکیده
I am going to talk about symplectic topology, a field that has seen a remarkable development in the past 15 years. Let’s begin with what was classically known – which was rather little. We start with a symplectic form ω, that is, a closed 2-form which is nondegenerate. This last condition means that ω is defined on an even dimensional manifold M and that its wedge with itself n times is a top dimensional form which never vanishes:
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