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A canonical map with invertible -projection is locally generated by a first-kind generating function
Statement
Let , let be phase domains with standard two-forms , and let be a diffeomorphism with (A phase domain, its canonical one-form and its standard symplectic two-form, A map between phase domains preserves the standard two-form iff , and a canonical diffeomorphism carries to ). Write and for the coordinate functions, and let . If the map has invertible derivative at , then there are an open neighbourhood of and an open ball about with on which is a diffeomorphism, and a function with , such that the restriction of to a product neighbourhood of is a first-kind generating function and its generated local map agrees with on a neighbourhood of .
The words canonical and the finite-regularity form operations here use Finite-regularity differential forms, Hamiltonian fields and canonical maps in phase charts, with the displayed maps; smoothness is not inferred.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The canonical diffeomorphism , the point , and the projection .
Since is , so is , with block derivative ; invertibility of is therefore equivalent to , the determinant being that of For , the determinant over a commutative ring by the Leibniz formula, and for a real matrix (The total (Fréchet) derivative as the linear first-order approximation with remainder, The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case, Invertible Euclidean linear maps, Rectangular matrix multiplication and the identity matrix , including zero-sized shapes).
Euclidean inverse function theorem (The Euclidean inverse function theorem): a local diffeomorphism at has a local inverse; hence there are open neighbourhoods of and of such that is a diffeomorphism, and the inverse , , is .
Pullback and canonicity in coordinates (The pullback of a differential form, The wedge product of differential forms, A map between phase domains preserves the standard two-form iff , and a canonical diffeomorphism carries to ): reads as forms on .
Poincare lemma for one-forms (Poincare's lemma on a star-shaped domain: every closed C1 field is exact, Star-shaped open subsets of Euclidean space): a closed one-form on a star-shaped open subset of is exact, with a potential given by the radial integral; the potential of a closed form is because its gradient is that form ( Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms, Directional derivatives and partial derivatives of a map ).
First-kind generating functions and the exterior derivative (Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map, The local coordinate formula for the exterior derivative, The exterior derivative squares to zero, Closed and exact differential forms): is a first-kind generating function when , and then , ; conversely a function with those two properties and nonvanishing mixed determinant satisfies the definition.
Proof
By [F1] and [F2], is a diffeomorphism with inverse ; on the functions and are in .
Define the one-form on , with the functions of step 1.1. Its exterior derivative is (using and ); by [F3] this vanishes, so is closed (Closed and exact differential forms).
The ball is open and star-shaped about its centre (Star-shaped open subsets of Euclidean space, The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement), and the one-form of step 2.1 is a closed one-form on it (indeed ); by [F4] there is a function with , that is, and .
At one has ; since is the inverse of and has block form , the identity gives ; by [F1] the factor is invertible, hence .
By step 4.1 and continuity of the mixed determinant, choose a product neighbourhood of on which . Its restriction is precisely first-kind data in [F5]; the relations , of step 3.1 are exactly the defining relations of the map generated by (Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map), and they hold on the image of under the identification ; hence the generated local map agrees with near .
Remarks
- The hypothesis that have invertible derivative at is the classical no-caustic condition for the first-kind description; when it fails one uses a second-kind or mixed generating function, and globally one may meet genuine obstructions such as the cylinder shift of The symplectic shift of the cylinder changes by the closed, non-exact form and has no global generating function.
- The published Liouville–Arnold action–angle theorem uses generating functions only through its action-angle construction; no global generating function is asserted here.
Depends on
A phase domain, its canonical one-form and its standard symplectic two-form
The standard two-form of a phase domain is closed and nondegenerate, with contraction
A map between phase domains preserves the standard two-form iff , and a canonical diffeomorphism carries to
The local map generated by a first- or second-kind generating function is a canonical local diffeomorphism
Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map
The Euclidean inverse function theorem
Poincare's lemma on a star-shaped domain: every closed C1 field is exact
Star-shaped open subsets of Euclidean space
The pullback of a differential form
The wedge product of differential forms
Closed and exact differential forms
The local coordinate formula for the exterior derivative
The exterior derivative squares to zero
A smooth differential -form
For , the determinant over a commutative ring by the Leibniz formula, and for a real matrix
Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms
Directional derivatives and partial derivatives of a map
The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case
The total (Fréchet) derivative as the linear first-order approximation with remainder
Invertible Euclidean linear maps
Rectangular matrix multiplication and the identity matrix , including zero-sized shapes
The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement
Finite-regularity differential forms, Hamiltonian fields and canonical maps in phase charts
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Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge Part II Mathematical Tripos), Section 4.4.3 'Generating Functions' (existence of a generating function on a neighbourhood where the relevant projection is a diffeomorphism), printed pages 104-105
- D. Cline, Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics (2nd edition, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, open textbook, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Section 15.3 (canonical transformations and the local existence of a generating function)