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Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics

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European Congress of Mathematics

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This is an introduction to the contributions by the lecturers at the mini-symposium on symplectic and contact geometry. We present a very general and brief account of the prehistory of the field and give references to some seminal papers and important survey works.

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  1. Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, The Russia Academy of Sciences, Lenin prospect 38, Bldg. 2, Moscow, 117829, Russia

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  1. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

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  2. Departament d’Algebra i Geometria Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007, Barcelona, Spain

    Rosa Maria Miró-Roig

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Sevryuk, M.B. (2001). Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 202. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8_49

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