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Past exam of the classical mechanics course of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2016 / 4 / d / Solution by

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An autonomous Hamiltonian system with

n

degrees of freedom is Liouville integrable if it has

n

conserved functions

I_{1}, \dots, I_{n}

, including the Hamiltonian, whose differentials are independent on a regular open set and which are in involution:

d I_{1} \land \dots \land d I_{n} \neq = 0, {I_{i}, I_{j}} = 0.

(1)

The equations can then be reduced locally to quadratures. The statement about action-angle coordinates on invariant tori additionally requires compact connected regular common level sets; integrable unbounded motion need not be periodic or lie on a torus.

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