Symplectic forms from continuous alternating two-forms #
SymplecticForm.ofContinuousAlternatingMap reads a nondegenerate continuous alternating
map in two variables as an algebraic symplectic form. Nondegeneracy need only be checked
in the left variable, since alternation supplies the corresponding right-variable condition.
The evaluation lemma identifies the resulting bilinear form with the original two-form.
Over finite-dimensional spaces, Witt's extension theorem then gives a continuous linear
automorphism of E × N fixing E × {0} and carrying one nondegenerate two-form to another with
the same restriction to E × {0}.
A continuous alternating two-form with trivial left kernel gives an algebraic symplectic form. No finite-dimensionality assumption is needed.
Instances For
The symplectic form constructed from a continuous two-form has the same evaluations.
Witt's extension theorem for the zero section. If two alternating forms a₀, a₁ on
E × N are nondegenerate and have the same restriction to E × {0}, then some continuous linear
automorphism A of E × N fixes E × {0} pointwise and carries a₀ to a₁.