Solution

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Let
be the Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo proposal is accepted with the Metropolis–Hastings acceptance probability
The leapfrog map is volume preserving and reversible after momentum reversal, so no proposal-density Jacobian appears.

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