Dictionary

symplectic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /sɪmˈplɛktɪk/

Etymology

A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)). The symplectic group has previously been called the line complex group.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Placed in or among, as if woven together.
2. (not-comparable, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
3. (not-comparable, of a bilinear form, qualifier:multilinear algebra) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
4. (not-comparable, of a vector space, qualifier:multilinear algebra) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
5. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
   • 1997, C. H. Cushman-de Vries (translator), Richard H. Cushman, Gijs M. Tuynman (translation editors), Jean-Marie Souriau, Structure of Dynamical Systems: A Symplectic View of Physics, Springer Science & Business Media (Birkhäuser).
   • 2003, Fabrizio Catanese, Gang Tian (editors), Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E Summer School, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics No. 1938.
   • There exist interesting and unexplored relations between symplectic geometry and the theory of critical points of holomorphic functions. 1995, V. I. Arnold, “Some remarks on symplectic monodromy of Milnor fibrations”, in Helmut Hofer, Clifford H. Taubes, Alan Weinstein, Eduard Zehnder, editors, The Floer Memorial Volume, Birkhäuser Verlag, page 99:
   • In symplectic geometry, there is a notion of fibrations #92;pi#58;P#92;rightarrowM with a symplectic manifold F as fiber, where the structure group is the group of (exact) Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of the fiber. These are called symplectic fibrations. If the base manifold (M,#92;omega#95;M) is also symplectic, there is a weak coupling construction, originally due to Thurston, of defining a symplectic structure on the total space P. 2003, Maung Min-Oo, “The Dirac Operator in Geometry and Physics”, in Steen Markvorsen, Maung Min-Oo, editors, Global Riemannian Geometry: Curvature and Topology, Springer, page 72:
6. (not-comparable) That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
7. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.

Antonyms

antiplectic

Deriveds

nonsymplectic · supersymplectic · hyosymplectic · cosymplectic · microsymplectic · symplectic group · presymplectic · orthosymplectic · symplectically · symplectic form · subsymplectic · multisymplectic · symplecticity · symplectic cut · symplectic invariant · slimplectic · symplectic matrix · polysymplectic · symplectic Clifford algebra

Relateds

symplectomorphism

wikipedia: Hermann Weyl · wikipedia: The Classical Groups

symplectic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /sɪmˈplɛktɪk/

Etymology

A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)). The symplectic group has previously been called the line complex group.

Meanings

1. A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
   • The structure of stable symplectics on finite dimensional spaces has been studied by Krein [8], Gelfand & Lidskii [9], and Moser [10] in work of considerable practical importance. 1967, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, volume 16, number 1, Indiana University, page 339:
2. A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
   • The symplectics (9) consist of a somewhat curved central triangular portion with the base upward, and anteriorly and posteriorly from this extends a wing-like process. 1914, The Philippine Journal of Science, Volume 9, page 27:
   • In many teleosts, on the other hand, including the catfishes, the symplectics have been entirely lost. 1967, Tyson R. Roberts, Studies on the Osteology and Phylogeny of Characoid Fishes, page 59:
   • The symplectics (Fig. 8, sym) are thin slender bones placed vertically in between the quadrates and the hyomandibulars. 1965, Agra University Journal of Research: Science, Volume 14, page 71:

Forms

wikipedia: Hermann Weyl · wikipedia: The Classical Groups