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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 2 8B Solution by
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For with Jacobian , the chain rule givesThis has Hamiltonian form with the same canonical matrix for every exactly whenTaking determinants gives ; the symplectic condition fixes the orientation, so . Hence the change-of-variables formula shows that the phase-space volume element is invariant. This is Liouville theorem in Hamiltonian mechanics.
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