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Can cotangent bundles see exotic smooth structures?

I have two questions that are inspired by a couple of questions here on MO (referenced below), as well as by a conversation with some other grad students at a summer school. Caveat: I'm not a ...
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Symplectic forms and 1-forms [closed]

Suppose we have a real symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$. Under what conditions can we find a global 1-form $\alpha$ such that $\omega = \alpha \wedge\alpha$? Obviously there are some simple ...