The repulsive force is , so the Hamiltonian is
The Hamilton's equations give and . Consequently
so the angular momentum is conserved. Moreover,
It follows that the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector is conserved. By the Hamiltonian conservation law, these time derivatives are exactly and , so both Poisson brackets vanish.
The integrals of motion are the energy , the components of , and the components of , subject to
Taking the dot product of with gives
Therefore the polar equation of a repulsive inverse-square orbit is
where and . For a nonradial physical scattering orbit , the identity above gives , as expected for a hyperbolic Kepler orbit.
For , Hamilton's equations give
Thus and . The Poisson bracket is , so the transformation is canonical for every . A type-2 generator is
Indeed , , and the transformed Hamiltonian is , as expected because are constants of motion.
The Poisson bracket is . Canonical variables satisfy and .
Order the phase-space coordinates as
Then Hamilton's equations are
The Poisson bracket is
For with Jacobian , the chain rule gives
This has Hamiltonian form with the same canonical matrix for every exactly when
Taking determinants gives ; the symplectic condition fixes the orientation, so . Hence the change-of-variables formula shows that the phase-space volume element is invariant. This is Liouville theorem in Hamiltonian mechanics.
A continuous symmetry is a family of transformations depending continuously on parameters for which the action is unchanged, possibly up to a spacetime boundary term. For an infinitesimal field variation , a Noether current obeys
when the Euler-Lagrange field equation holds. Its Noether charge
is conserved provided the flux vanishes.
Noether theorem gives the implication from a differentiable global variational symmetry to an on-shell conserved current. A conserved current gives a conserved charge only under suitable boundary and convergence conditions. Conversely, a conserved charge generates a continuous symmetry through Poisson brackets classically or a commutator quantum mechanically when a regular Hamiltonian formulation exists. Currents can be changed by identically conserved improvement terms, and inverse Noether statements require regularity and the exclusion of such trivial currents, so the three notions are related but not literally in one-to-one correspondence.
For spacetime translations, the canonical stress-energy tensor is
For
raising the second index gives the symmetric tensor
Translation invariance gives four conserved currents , one for each fixed , and the four conserved charges are the four-momentum
is the energy and is the spatial momentum.
The Lorentz transformation variation of a scalar is generated solely by its argument. The corresponding Lorentz current is
Using and symmetry of ,
In particular, conservation of the boost charge
implies
The quantity denoted in the question is therefore the conserved momentum component , assuming the same vanishing boundary flux.
For smooth functions on the six-dimensional phase space with canonical coordinates , the Poisson bracket is
A transformation of phase space is canonical when it preserves the symplectic form, or equivalently all Poisson brackets. For one degree of freedom this is
equivalently .
Suppose a type-two generating function for a canonical transformation defines
Then
Equality of the mixed partial derivatives gives , so the transformation is canonical wherever it is locally invertible.
For
the fundamental theorem of calculus and differentiation under the integral sign give
Thus
and in particular .
For the unit-frequency simple harmonic motion, the transformed Hamiltonian is simply . Hamilton's equations become
Therefore
and transformation back gives the familiar solution
Now consider the weak quartic oscillator
Choose the modified generating function
It gives
so the transformed Hamiltonian is again . Hence and . Expanding the square root with the Taylor series gives
Differentiation with respect to therefore yields
where
Set and
Writing and expanding the inverse sine relation at gives
Expanding similarly gives
Consequently
Since , this is the required expression. The formula is understood away from turning points where and the ratio itself is singular.
A quadratic homogeneous polynomial in the fibre variables of the cotangent bundle is a first integral of the geodesic Hamiltonian exactly when its symmetric lowered coefficients form a rank-two Killing tensor. For , the Poisson bracket is , so the equivalence follows by comparing cubic coefficients at every point.
Symplectic matrix 2026-10-07
An invertible real matrix preserving the standard symplectic form. With , it satisfies , equivalently . The first identity describes preservation of the form; the second describes preservation of coordinate Poisson brackets.