How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Every symplectic action is Hamiltonian
Statement
Every symplectic Lie-group action is Hamiltonian. This is false.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , the two-torus with , and the translation action of in the first coordinate.
is countable choice; it is used only through the fundamental-field interface.
On the given standard smooth torus the forms descend, is symplectic, and . A closed one-form with nonzero period on an oriented embedded circle is not exact (A nonzero period obstructs exactness and bounding).
A smooth left action is jointly smooth and satisfies the identity and action laws; in the library convention its fundamental field is . Smooth left actions of Lie groups, Fundamental vector fields for a left action.
A Hamiltonian action admits a map whose component for satisfies . Symplectic and Hamiltonian Lie-group actions.
Refutation
The displayed formula descends from the smooth translations of , and the identity and action laws hold by addition, so it is a smooth left action by [F2]. These translations preserve , and hence , so the action is symplectic.
By [F2] the fundamental field for is . Thus the component equation would read , so would be a primitive of .
But has nonzero period: integrating it over the closed loop , , gives , while the integral of an exact one-form over a closed loop vanishes. Hence is not exact, and no such function exists.
The translation action is therefore symplectic but not Hamiltonian, so the statement is false.
Depends on
Used by
Nothing in the library uses this result yet.
Dependency tree · two levels
25 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)
- Eckhard Meinrenken, Symplectic Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)