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.

See also

• symplectic manifold
• Hamiltonian mechanics
• Riemannian geometry
• contact geometry