Primitive exterior square

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Primitive exterior square by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-11-05
The primitive exterior square of a symplectic vector space is the kernel of its symplectic contraction of an exterior square. In dimension four, the invariant inverse-form bivector has nonzero wedge square. Choose ; the symmetric bilinear form is nondegenerate on . The primitive subspace is , and therefore inherits a nondegenerate form of dimension five. The symplectic Lie algebra acts on it by infinitesimal orthogonal transformations.

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