Coordinate Jacobi condition for a Poisson bivector

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The Jacobi identity for a Poisson bivector reduces to the displayed cyclic identity in every local chart. Necessity follows by applying the bracket to coordinate functions. Sufficiency follows because the second-derivative terms in an arbitrary Jacobiator cancel by antisymmetry, leaving this coefficient multiplying first derivatives of the three functions.

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