Solution

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The Poisson bracket in the original coordinates is
For , set
Then and . The pullback definition of a canonical transformation gives the pointwise matrix condition
Since is invertible, this is equivalent to . Indeed, invert and use to obtain , then multiply by and . Applying the same calculation to the inverse implication gives equivalence. These are the two equivalent symplectic matrix identities that connect the symplectic form with Poisson brackets.

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