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Examples of symplectic structures

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In this paper we construct symplectic forms\(\tilde \omega _k , k \geqq 0\), on a compact manifold\({\tilde Y}\) which have the same homotopy theoretic invariants, but which are not diffeomorphic.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, SUNY, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Dusa McDuff

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Research partially supported by NSF grant no. DMS 8504355

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McDuff, D. Examples of symplectic structures. Invent Math 89, 13–36 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01404672

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