With a Lagrangian subspace first in a paired symplectic basis, its stabilizer consists of with symmetric. The additive symmetric-matrix unipotent radical has order ; the Levi subgroup is , acting by . Its index in is , the number of Lagrangian subspaces.
The symplectic orthogonal complement of a subspace is . The nondegenerate bilinear form gives . An isotropic subspace of a symplectic vector space satisfies ; a Lagrangian subspace satisfies equality.