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A multisymplectic manifold not covered by Darboux charts

Differential Geometry 2016-08-29 v1

Abstract

The Darboux theorem in symplectic geometry implies that any two points in a connected symplectic manifold have neighbourhoods symplectomorphic to each other. The impossibility of such a theorem in the more general multisymplectic framework appears to be, at least, folkloristic, but no explicit counterexample seems to exist in the literature. In this note we provide such an example by constructing multisymplectic three-forms on the connected manifold R6\mathbb R^6, which do not even have constant linear type and therefore can not allow for an atlas consisting of "Darboux charts".

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@article{arxiv.1608.07424,
  title  = {A multisymplectic manifold not covered by Darboux charts},
  author = {Leonid Ryvkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07424},
  year   = {2016}
}
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