Contraction with a symplectic form #
On a finite-dimensional real normed space, contraction with a symplectic form is an invertible continuous linear map to the continuous dual. This identifies covectors with vectors and allows the contraction equation in Moser's deformation argument to be solved using the continuous-linear-map inverse. The symplectic pairing of two continuous maps is continuous, and that of two differentiable curves satisfies the product rule. The pairing is bounded by the operator norm of the form.
See McDuff--Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Topology, Section 3.2.
Contraction with a finite-dimensional symplectic form is an isomorphism to the continuous dual.
The symplectic pairing of two maps continuous on a set is continuous on that set.
The symplectic pairing of two continuous maps is continuous.
A symplectic form on a finite-dimensional space is bounded by the operator norm of its
continuous bilinear map: |ω(v, w)| ≤ ‖ω‖ ‖v‖ ‖w‖.
The product rule for the symplectic pairing of two curves.