Symplectic orientation

ID: symplectic-orientation

Symplectic orientation by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
A symplectic form on a -dimensional smooth manifold determines the orientation in which the nowhere-zero volume form is positive. Consequently every symplectic manifold is orientable. In dimension two this forbids a symplectic form on the Möbius strip.

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