Solution

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Fix . A linear change of coordinates first identifies with the standard symplectic form . After shrinking to a star-shaped neighborhood, every
is nondegenerate. The Poincare lemma gives , with . Define by and let be its local flow. Cartan's magic formula gives
Thus , proving the Darboux theorem.
For a smooth function on a closed symplectic manifold, its Hamiltonian vector field is defined by . The same formula gives , so the Hamiltonian flow preserves the symplectic form. To move one point to another in a connected , join them by a path, cover the path by finitely many Darboux charts, and in each chart use a cutoff linear Hamiltonian to perform a small translation. Composing these compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms proves that symplectomorphisms act transitively on each connected component.
In , every embedded curve is a Lagrangian submanifold. Let be circles enclosing different Euclidean areas. A plane symplectomorphism preserves area and carries the bounded complementary component of one circle to that of its image, so no symplectomorphism maps to .
The same phenomenon exists in every . With
take the product tori
The Liouville class of a Lagrangian submanifold has respective period vectors and on these tori. Every symplectomorphism of preserves the Liouville class up to the induced integral change of basis on , because its pullback changes only by an exact form. An integral automorphism sends a primitive vector to a primitive vector and therefore cannot send the first period vector to the second. Hence

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