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This paper studies the notion of a locally conformal symplectic (lcs) manifold. An lcs manifold has a non-degenerate \(2\)-form \(\Omega\) and a closed \(1\)-form \(\omega\) such that \(d_\omega\Omega = 0\), where \(d_\omega(-) = d(-) + \omega \wedge (-)\) is an \(\omega\)-perturbed exterior derivative. If \(\omega = 0\), then \(\Omega\) is a symplectic form. Of course, the basic question is how close are the properties of such manifolds to those of symplectic manifolds. For instance, clearly an lcs manifold has even dimension \(2n\) and a canonical orientation provided by \(\Omega^n\). Here, the author considers various lcs analogues of symplectic entities such as Calabi homomorphisms and associated infinitesimal invariants. The author goes on to show that there is a kind of symplectic reduction for Hamiltonian group actions in the lcs situation. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0996.00031].