In general, what is the rank of a differential form?

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This is a general question about ranks of differential forms.

I read in a book the phrase "symplectic form has constant rank..." I understand that the symplectic form is a nondegenerate differential 2-form. But what is the rank of a symplectic form?

In general, what is the rank of a differential form? When I think rank, I think about the dimension of the range of a matrix. Is there some matrix associated with a differential form? Or does rank in this context refer to tensor rank?

I also understand the notion of the rank of a differentiable map between manifolds. If $f:M \rightarrow N$ is differentiable and $p\in M$, the rank is the dimension of the image of the derivative:

$\mathrm{rank}(f)_p = \mathrm{dim}(\mathrm{image}(df_p))$,

where $df_p:T_p M \rightarrow T_{f(p)} N$.

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Any two-form gives a (skew-symmetric) bilinear form $TM_p \times TM_p \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$.

The rank of the two-form at $p$ is the rank of this bilinear form.

What's the rank of a bilinear form?

A bilinear map $B: V \times V \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is equivalent to a linear map $V \rightarrow V^*$ given by $v \mapsto B(v,\cdot)$. The rank of this linear map is the rank of the bilinear form.


Some further comments: Non-degenerate means full rank, i.e. that the linear maps $TM_p \rightarrow TM^*_p$ you get are isomorphisms. So a symplectic form is always constant rank.