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ID: past-exam-of-the-lie-groups-and-differentiable-manifolds-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2008/b/6/ii/solution
Past exam of the lie Groups and Differentiable Manifolds course of the University of Oxford 2008 B 6 ii Solution by
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Use the standard convention that the compact manifold is nonempty and has no boundary. Orient it by . Since , every power is closed. If for some , thenagain by Leibniz and closedness. Stokes theorem would give . But this integral is strictly positive in the symplectic orientation, a contradiction. ThereforeThe boundaryless hypothesis matters: a compact disk has a symplectic area form but no nonzero ordinary second cohomology class.
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