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Past exam of the theoretical physics I course of the University of Cambridge 2015 Paper 1 3 c Solution by
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In one canonical degree of freedom it is enough to check for a locally invertible transformation. Hereso and . To obtain exactly the requested Hamiltonian, choose and the positive branch for :The identities and giveThis is a local canonical chart, with inverseIt is not a global identification of the real half-plane with the entire oscillator plane. The negative branch for gives the analogous lower wedge. This domain matters if an oscillator trajectory is continued beyond the boundary of the chart.
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