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An isolating integral is a single-valued integral of motion whose fixed value confines an orbit to a lower-dimensional level set of phase space. Along the flow, ; for an autonomous Hamiltonian, this means . Several isolating integrals are independent when their gradients are linearly independent on the regular region considered. Counting them requires a specified domain: merely local orbit labels in a flow box do not establish global single-valued integrals. The following cases concern regular globally meaningful orbit constraints.

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