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The content of this article is important, as it explains how
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It is far from clear what is meant by "the category of symplectic manifolds". This is not so much the deficiency of the article itself as the reflection on the current state of affairs (and perhaps on the shortcomings of the general category theory treatment). For example, from a certain point of
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The word category is applied both in its colloquial meaning, "collection of objects of like structure" and its more precise mathematical meaning. For the question of existense of a richer structure on a geometric object, for example, symplectic structure on a differentiable manifold or smooth
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Your point that other notions of manifold don’t fit so well into the categorical structure is well-taken; I include them because there do naturally fit into a progression of structures (as in G-structures).
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Given these concerns, I propose that the author delete the article before anyone else edits it — this is relatively uncomplicated. Any new material can be merged to the corresponding specialized articles.
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I've never heard about, say, "category of exotic spheres" or "category of symmetric spaces", or even "category of homology manifolds": what are they doing here?
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