Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2016 / S7 / 2 / c

For equal masses $m$, the newly conserved relative $y$ energy isIt is kinetic energy relative to the free $y$ center of mass plus the two interactions. Adding its constant center kinetic energy and the already conserved $x,z$ energies gives the total Hamiltonian. The equal-mass oscillator rotations simplify to $J_{ij}=x_i{p}_{x_j}-x_j{p}_{x_i}$, but are not new: for unequal masses their conserved predecessors contain the mass-weight factors. As a concrete check, independent transformations of $X_i=\sqrt{m_i}{x}_i$ rotate an isotropic oscillator at any positive masses. Complete mass equality does not magically make generic $U_{12}(y_1-y_2)+U_{13}(y_1-y_3)+V(z_1-z_2)$ invariant under rotations of physical space.