Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 1 32A e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Hamiltonian in the question isDefineEach is a first integral, the functions involve disjoint canonical coordinate pairs and hence satisfy , and their differentials are independent wherever every . Since , these integrals prove Liouville integrability of the isotropic harmonic oscillator.
For constants , the common level isso the regular invariant set isHamilton's equations give , so every angle evolves as . If some , the corresponding circle collapses and the level is a lower-dimensional singular invariant torus.