Let be a real harmonic function in a semistrip, , and . Let be the negative-exponential Half-range Fourier transforms of and , and put , . The closed differential form has zero boundary integral. Integration by parts of tangential derivatives cancels all corner values and gives the displayed global relation, for .
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Symplectic form Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A symplectic form is a closed differential form of degree two whose value on every tangent space is a nondegenerate alternating bilinear form. In canonical position-momentum coordinates it is .
For a nonvanishing adjoint Higgs field, put . If an oriented orthonormal internal basis satisfies , the displayed tensor is gauge invariant. In a gauge with , write ; the transverse quadratic terms cancel, leaving . Hence it is a closed differential form wherever . Under trace normalization of su(2) with , and the commutator term has coefficient . With , its coefficient is one. Omitting this normalization factor generally destroys closure.
The trace of the curvature form of a connection is a global closed differential form of degree two. Under a frame change , the connection matrix and curvature change by and . Thus trace is independent of frame. The Bianchi identity gives . Taking the trace cancels the two terms: one-forms commute with two-forms in the graded sense, and renaming the matrix indices gives equality of their traces. Locally , since the trace of vanishes by pairing its off-diagonal terms. It is the curvature of the determinant connection.