Solution

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With , the explicit energy and ordinary rotation generators just discussed are
The energy is constant because the drive factor no longer depends on time. For each rotation charge, differentiating and using gives .
These are angular momenta in the auxiliary three-dimensional space whose coordinates are the particle labels . They are not the physical spatial angular momentum ; generic do not have physical rotational invariance. They are precisely the equal-mass representatives of the weighted charges already present in solution. The new energy integral supplies the autonomous relative- dynamics not present in the driven case.

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