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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 6 1 e Solution by
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Let along one characteristic curve. Differentiating the characteristic equation gives , , with . The Liouville formula for a fundamental matrix then gives the phase-space flow JacobianIndeed , since is independent of . Differentiation proves . If that divergence vanishes, gives and the flow preserves Lebesgue measure on phase space.
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