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Scope of the canonical-methods items: locality and topology of generating functions, caustics, and the E7 claims delivered by published root items
Remarks
- Locality and topology. Generating functions exist locally under the mixed-invertibility hypotheses of Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map and A canonical map with invertible -projection is locally generated by a first-kind generating function. Globally they may fail: The symplectic shift of the cylinder changes by the closed, non-exact form and has no global generating function exhibits a symplectic shift whose is closed but not exact, so no single-valued global generating function exists, although one exists on every chart. The distinction between the canonical map itself (defined at finite regularity in Finite-regularity differential forms, Hamiltonian fields and canonical maps in phase charts, with the smooth intrinsic case in Symplectomorphisms, local symplectomorphisms, and symplectic embeddings and Canonical transformation) and the maps admitting global generating functions is a genuine topological one, not a technicality.
- Caustics. The hypotheses and are local no-caustic conditions: A canonical map with invertible -projection is locally generated by a first-kind generating function states the converse direction, and A complete integral produces Hamilton characteristics, the Jacobi constants, a local converse and canonical labels shows that the Jacobi constants form local canonical coordinates exactly where the mixed derivative is invertible. A complete integral is a family of solutions with essential parameters, defined in The Hamilton-Jacobi equation and a complete integral of it; it is not a general solution, and no global Hamilton-Jacobi existence across a caustic is claimed.
- Locality of the flow statements. The derivative of the Hamiltonian flow satisfies and and A Hamiltonian local flow on a phase domain preserves Lebesgue measure on its flow domain are stated on the actual flow domain of a autonomous or time-dependent Hamiltonian and assume no completeness; the nonautonomous evolution uses an initial time and a final time, with inverse given by reversing those endpoints. The published Hamiltonian flows preserve the symplectic form and Liouville volume preservation give the corresponding manifold-level statements.
- Claims of this section delivered by published root items (used by reference, not re-authored). The tautological one-form and the canonical cotangent two-form, with the latter closed and nondegenerate: Tautological one-form on a cotangent bundle, The canonical cotangent two-form is symplectic. Hamiltonian vector fields, the Hamilton equations in canonical cotangent coordinates and the Poisson bracket with its coordinate formula, bilinearity, skew symmetry, derivation property and Jacobi identity: Hamiltonian vector field and Hamiltonian function, Hamiltonian vector fields exist uniquely for smooth functions, Hamilton equations in canonical cotangent coordinates, Poisson bracket on a symplectic manifold, Coordinate formula for the Poisson bracket, The Poisson bracket is bilinear, skew, and a derivation in each entry, The Poisson bracket satisfies the Jacobi identity. The smooth definitions of canonical maps and the manifold-level conservation statements are Canonical transformation, Symplectomorphisms, local symplectomorphisms, and symplectic embeddings, Hamiltonian flows preserve the symplectic form and Liouville volume preservation. This item records that division of labour for the reviewing steps; it asserts no new mathematics.
Depends on
A map between phase domains preserves the standard two-form iff , and a canonical diffeomorphism carries to
Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map
The local map generated by a first- or second-kind generating function is a canonical local diffeomorphism
A canonical map with invertible -projection is locally generated by a first-kind generating function
A time-dependent generating function produces canonical time slices and shifts the Hamiltonian by
The symplectic shift of the cylinder changes by the closed, non-exact form and has no global generating function
The Hamilton-Jacobi equation and a complete integral of it
A complete integral produces Hamilton characteristics, the Jacobi constants, a local converse and canonical labels
The derivative of the Hamiltonian flow satisfies and
A Hamiltonian local flow on a phase domain preserves Lebesgue measure on its flow domain
Tautological one-form on a cotangent bundle
The canonical cotangent two-form is symplectic
Hamiltonian vector field and Hamiltonian function
Hamilton equations in canonical cotangent coordinates
Poisson bracket on a symplectic manifold
Coordinate formula for the Poisson bracket
The Poisson bracket is bilinear, skew, and a derivation in each entry
The Poisson bracket satisfies the Jacobi identity
Hamiltonian flows preserve the symplectic form
Liouville volume preservation
Canonical transformation
Symplectomorphisms, local symplectomorphisms, and symplectic embeddings
Finite-regularity differential forms, Hamiltonian fields and canonical maps in phase charts
Hamiltonian vector fields exist uniquely for smooth functions
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Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge Part II Mathematical Tripos), Sections 4.4.3 (generating functions) and 4.7 (Hamilton-Jacobi theory), printed pages 104-105 and 121-126
- D. Cline, Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics (2nd edition, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, open textbook, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Sections 15.3-15.4 (canonical transformations and Hamilton-Jacobi theory)