Solution

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For the standard symplectic form, ; a transformation is canonical when it preserves the symplectic form, equivalently Poisson brackets. The Jacobi identity gives with the stated convention. For , differentiate in ; Jacobi makes the derivative the Lie transport of the bracket, preserving the canonical constant brackets at . Hence every map in the one-parameter flow is canonical.

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