We compute the exact pullback of the canonical field‑theoretic symplectic form to the four‑dimensional parameter space of a kink‑antikink superposition ansatz in a general relativistic scalar field theory with degenerate vacua. The diagonal blocks of the symplectic matrix reproduce the free‑particle forms dPᵢ daᵢ with the relativistic momenta Pᵢ = Mᵢ vᵢ, where M is the kink mass. The off‑diagonal (interaction) blocks are explicitly expressed in closed form as a finite set of overlap integrals of the static kink profile and its derivatives; these integrals can be further reduced using the first integral of the static field equation. No asymptotic approximation is made; the result is exact for arbitrary separation of the centres. The pulled‑back form is closed; its non‑degeneracy holds at least for large separations, where the off‑diagonal components are exponentially small, and extends by continuity to an open neighbourhood of the asymptotic region. The result provides a rigorous geometric starting point for the collective‑coordinate method: the exact field‑theoretic symplectic structure on the physically motivated ansatz is obtained directly from the canonical phase space.
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