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Named after Jean Gaston Darboux.
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Today it means: A theorem providing a normal form for special classes of differential 1-forms, partially generalizing the Frobenius integration theorem. One of its many consequences is that any two symplectic manifolds of the same dimension are locally symplectomorphic to one another. Full definition →
Named after Jean Gaston Darboux.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.