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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 20 1 ii a Solution by
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The Poisson bracket in the original coordinates isFor , setThen and . The pullback definition of a canonical transformation gives the pointwise matrix conditionSince 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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