A multisymplectic 3-structure on an -dimensional manifold is given by a closed smooth 3-form of maximal rank on which is of the same algebraic type at each point of , i.e. they belong to the same orbit under the action of the group . This means that for each point the form is isomorphic to a chosen canonical 3-form on . R. Westwick [Linear Multilinear Algebra 10, 183–204 (1981; Zbl 0464.15001)] and D. Ž. Djoković [Linear Multilinear Algebra 13, 3–39 (1983; Zbl 0515.15011)] obtained the classification of 3-forms in dimension seven. Among these forms they revealed eight being canonical forms. By using these results the authors describe the isotropy groups of all canonical forms. To point out the nature of these eight groups we mention, for example: the exceptional Lie group , its noncompact dual ,
@article{701707, title = {Multisymplectic forms of degree three in dimension seven}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Winter School "Geometry and Physics"}, series = {GDML\_Books}, publisher = {Circolo Matematico di Palermo}, address = {Palermo}, year = {2003}, pages = {[73]-91}, mrnumber = {MR1982435}, zbl = {1045.53017}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/701707} }
Bureš, Jarolím; Vanžura, Jiří. Multisymplectic forms of degree three in dimension seven, dans Proceedings of the 22nd Winter School "Geometry and Physics", GDML_Books, (2003), pp. [73]-91. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/701707/