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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 140 3 b Solution by
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Use the Hamiltonian vector field convention , which is forced by the sign of the formula in this part. This is the opposite of the default sign in the linked general article. Since , Cartan's magic formula givesDifferentiate the pullback of a differential form along the smooth isotopy and integrate from to :Thus the required exact differential form has the explicit primitive
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