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Symplectic topology explores the topological and geometric implications of the existence of a skew-symmetric form. As such, it is very relevant to different parts of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, representation theory and gauge theory. Thus the symplectic theme is itself a unifying idea in mathematics.
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Mcduff, D. (1998). Recent Developments in Symplectic Topology. In: Balog, A., Katona, G.O.H., Recski, A., Sza’sz, D. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 169. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8898-1_2
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