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A symplectic structure on a manifold is a closed nondegenerate differential 2-form. The phase space of a mechanical system has a natural symplectic structure.
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Arnold, V.I. (1989). Symplectic manifolds. In: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 60. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2063-1_8
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