数学上，一个辛流形是一个装备了一个闭、非退化2-形式ω的光滑流形，ω称为辛形式。辛流形的研究称为辛拓扑。辛流形作为经典力学和分析力学的抽象表述中的流形的余切丛自然的出现，例如在经典力学的哈密顿表述中，该领域的一个主要原因之一：一个系统的所有组态的空间可以用一个流形建模，而该流形的余切丛描述了该系统的相空间。

一个辛流形上的任何实值可微函数H可以用作一个能量函数或者叫哈密顿量。和任何一个哈密顿量相关有一个哈密顿矢量场；该哈密顿矢量场的积分曲线是哈密顿-雅可比方程的解。哈密顿矢量场定义了辛流形上的一个流场，称为哈密顿流场或者叫辛同胚。根据刘维尔定理，哈密顿流保持相空间的体积形式不变。

In mathematics, a symplectic manifold is a smooth manifold, M, equipped with a closed nondegenerate differential 2-form, ω, called the symplectic form. The study of symplectic manifolds is called symplectic geometry or symplectic topology. Symplectic manifolds arise naturally in abstract formulations of classical mechanics and analytical mechanics as the cotangent bundles of manifolds. For example, in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics, which provides one of the major motivations for the field, the set of all possible configurations of a system is modeled as a manifold, and this manifold's cotangent bundle describes the phase space of the system.