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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 2 14E c Solution by
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Under the gauge transformation,because the curl of a gradient vanishes, andThe transformed Lagrangian isA total time derivative changes the action only by endpoint terms, whose variation vanishes for fixed endpoints, so the Euler-Lagrange equations are unchanged.
The new momentum isUse the type-two generating function for a canonical transformationIt gives , , andThis equals , so the gauge change is a time-dependent canonical transformation.
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