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One integral can occur in an autonomous system with a fully chaotic region and no additional continuous orbit constraints. The specific orbital energy is conserved in a time-independent gravitational potential. If a chaotic stellar orbit is dense in a connected region of its energy hypersurface, every continuous integral of motion is constant on that region. Thus it cannot supply a new independent constraint there, and energy is the only independent isolating integral. A generic nonaxisymmetric potential can contain such regions; not every orbit in such a potential is necessarily chaotic.