Symplectic cohomology obstruction
ID: symplectic-cohomology-obstruction
On a nonempty compact -dimensional symplectic manifold without boundary, with , the class in top-degree de Rham cohomology is nonzero, since its integral in the symplectic orientation is positive. In particular cannot be an exact differential form: if , then and the Generalized Stokes theorem would make that integral zero. Thus vanishing second de Rham cohomology obstructs a closed positive-dimensional symplectic manifold.
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