Thermodynamic potential as a Lagrangian graph

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For a smooth function , its differential defines a Lagrangian submanifold of the cotangent bundle: pullback of the canonical one-form on a cotangent bundle is , so pullback of the symplectic form is zero. The graph has half the ambient dimension. With and momentum coordinates , the first law of thermodynamics identifies the equilibrium graph with . This geometric statement does not require extensivity or thermodynamic stability.

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