Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-theoretical-physics-i-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/paper-1/3/c/solution

In one canonical degree of freedom it is enough to check for a locally invertible transformation. Here
so and . To obtain exactly the requested Hamiltonian, choose and the positive branch for :
The identities and give
This is a local canonical chart, with inverse
It 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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