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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ii Paper 1 30B iii Solution by
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Formally the Jacobian determinant of the characteristic flow map satisfies , , so . Changing variables givesTaking the th root proves for . Equivalently multiply the equation by and integrate the divergence term, with vanishing boundary terms. Volume preservation gives the result without needing such boundary decay for general integrable data.
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