Symplectic topology

Symplectic topology (also called symplectic geometry) is a branch of differential topology/geometry which studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with closed, nondegenerate, 2-forms. Symplectic topology has its origins in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics where the phase space of certain classical systems takes on the structure of a symplectic manifold.

References

• Dusa McDuff and D. Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Topology, Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-198-50451-9.
• A. T. Fomenko, Symplectic Geometry (2nd edition) (1995) Gordon and Breach Publishers, ISBN 2-88124-901-9. (Provides an undergrad level introduction.)