Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 7 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The derivative of the backward characteristic flow map isThus the change of variables formula preserves phase-space Lebesgue measure. With zero source, , so for every finite ,Taking the th root proves . For this is a quasi-norm, and the argument still works because it uses only a change of variables, not the triangle inequality. The identity also holds in the extended sense when an integral is infinite. Since the flow is bijective and measure-preserving, it additionally preserves the essential supremum, so the same conclusion holds for .