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Preserving one Hamiltonian flow does not imply canonicality

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A canonical transformation preserves the symplectic form, equivalently the canonical Poisson brackets, and therefore the Hamiltonian form of every Hamiltonian system. Preservation of just one selected flow is weaker. For H=(q12​+p12​)/2 on two coordinate pairs, Q1​=q1​, P1​=p1​, Q2​=2q2​, P2​=p2​ preserves both that physical Hamiltonian and its equations, but {Q2​,P2​}=2. Thus it is not canonical. Universally preserving Hamiltonian form instead forces DFJ(DF)T=J by applying the chain rule to arbitrary Hamiltonian gradients.

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