 Poisson manifold (source code)

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= Poisson manifold
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A Poisson manifold is a smooth manifold with a bilinear bracket on smooth functions that is antisymmetric, obeys the <Jacobi identity>, and is a derivation in each argument. Its Poisson bivector may have nonconstant rank, unlike the inverse of a symplectic form.

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