Math 848L: Supplementary resources

Here are some supplements for the course. I will update this page as the course continues.

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

Contact geometry notes

Contact Geometry

n-body-choreographies

Some motivation for the definition of a symplectic manifold

Salamon’s survey of the state of knowledge concerning the existence and uniqueness of symplectic structures

Cartan’s magic formula in the time-dependent case

Other references: (These are references to textbooks that are not required for the course, but that you might find useful and interesting.)

V. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics