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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ii Paper 4 9E a Solution by
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Use the canonical Poisson bracket convention . The Hamiltonian flow generated by has and . The chain rule therefore givesThus is invariant under every such trajectory exactly when identically. Antisymmetry then gives along the flow of , so is a constant of motion.
For , the generated equations are , , hence , . Invariance under this simultaneous translation implies conservation of when ; the zero generator alone conveys no additional conservation law.
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