Canonical variables ( $(q^{I}, p_{I})$ )

Phase space coordinates are canonical when their Poisson brackets have the form

{q^{I}, p_{J}} = δ_{J}^{I}

, with the position-position and momentum-momentum brackets zero.

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Canonical pair ( $(q, p)$ )

A canonical pair consists of a coordinate and its canonical momentum, with Poisson bracket

{q, p} = 1

.

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Canonical quantization
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / iii / Paper 306 / 1 / i / Solution
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