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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 16 2 e Solution by
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The Hamiltonian flow of solvesCompactness and the absence of a boundary make this smooth vector field complete, so the flow exists for all real . The defining equation and Cartan's magic formula giveTherefore the pullback of a differential form differentiation rule yieldsso . Pullback commutes with the wedge product of differential forms, and consequentlyThus the flow preserves the symplectic volume, in fact the entire symplectic form.
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