Meaning

Placed in or among, as if woven together..

Definitions by Sense

1. Placed in or among, as if woven together.
2. (group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
3. (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
4. (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
5. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
6. That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
7. (petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
8. (mathematics) A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.

Example Sentences

1997, C. H. Cushman-de Vries (translator), Richard H. Cushman, Gijs M. Tuynman (translation editors), Jean-Marie Souriau, Structure of Dynamical Systems: A Symplectic View of Physics, Springer Science & Business Media (Birkhäuser).

2003, Fabrizio Catanese, Gang Tian (editors), Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E Summer School, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics No. 1938.

There exist interesting and unexplored relations between symplectic geometry and the theory of critical points of holomorphic functions.

In symplectic geometry, there is a notion of fibrations #92;pi#58;P#92;rightarrowM with a symplectic manifold F as fiber, where the structure group is the group of (exact) Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of the fiber. These are called symplectic fibrations. If the base manifold (M,#92;omega#95;M) is also symplectic, there is a weak coupling construction, originally due to Thurston, of defining a symplectic structure on the total space P.

The structure of stable symplectics on finite dimensional spaces has been studied by Krein [8], Gelfand & Lidskii [9], and Moser [10] in work of considerable practical importance.

The symplectics (9) consist of a somewhat curved central triangular portion with the base upward, and anteriorly and posteriorly from this extends a wing-like process.

The symplectics (Fig. 8, sym) are thin slender bones placed vertically in between the quadrates and the hyomandibulars.

In many teleosts, on the other hand, including the catfishes, the symplectics have been entirely lost.

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