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Quadratic geodesic first integral (K(x,p)=Kij(x)pi​pj​,{K,H}=0)

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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 v=g−1p, the Poisson bracket is {K,H}=∇(a​Kbc)​vavbvc, so the equivalence follows by comparing cubic coefficients at every point.

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