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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 16 4 b Solution by
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The cotangent fiber translation is a smooth diffeomorphism with inverse , and . For a tangent vector at , the intrinsic definition of the canonical one-form on a cotangent bundle givesThus . Taking its exterior derivative with the fixed sign convention yieldsIf is a closed differential one-form, the last term vanishes, proving that is a symplectomorphism. In fact the converse holds too: the pullback by the zero section shows that implies .
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