Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2009/ii/paper-1/30b/iii/solution

Formally the Jacobian determinant of the characteristic flow map satisfies , , so . Changing variables gives
Taking 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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