Symplectic Geometry

Program

Symplectic linear algebra. Symplectic manifolds. Symplectomorphisms. Lagrangian submanifolds. Theorems of Darboux and Weinstein (lagrangian neighborhood). Hamiltonian vector fields. Brief introduction to Poisson manifolds. Hamiltonian actions and moment map. Noether Theorem. Equivariance of the moment map and coadjoint orbits. Convexity Theorem. Symplectic reduction. Additional topics: Almost complex structures. Kähler manifolds. Contact manifolds. Lie algebroids and Poisson geometry. Toric symplectic manifolds.

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