Solution

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The Hamiltonian flow of solves
Compactness 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 give
Therefore the pullback of a differential form differentiation rule yields
so . Pullback commutes with the wedge product of differential forms, and consequently
Thus the flow preserves the symplectic volume, in fact the entire symplectic form.

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