Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2013/iii/paper-6/1/e/solution

Let along one characteristic curve. Differentiating the characteristic equation gives , , with . The Liouville formula for a fundamental matrix then gives the phase-space flow Jacobian
Indeed , since is independent of . Differentiation proves . If that divergence vanishes, gives and the flow preserves Lebesgue measure on phase space.

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