If is an angular diffeomorphism and is a closed differential one-form, the map is a symplectomorphism. It combines a cotangent lift of a diffeomorphism with translation by a closed differential one-form. In particular is allowed on a torus even when the constant one-form is not exact.
On either branch , all local canonical momenta for these coordinates have the form and , with arbitrary smooth . The mixed coordinate–momentum brackets fix the linear momentum terms, while the momentum–momentum bracket requires the remaining shift one-form to be closed. It is locally a gradient. The transformation is singular at and is not globally one-to-one across both signs of .
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