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For , the canonical Poisson brackets give . Consequently projections onto fixed axes obey
If the two original projections are conserved and the axes are linearly independent, the preceding Jacobi identity argument makes the projection along conserved as well. The vectors form a basis of three-dimensional space, so every fixed-axis projection is a linear combination of these conserved quantities. Angular momentum is therefore conserved along every axis.

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