Paper 1, Section II, D

Integrable Systems | Part II, 2012

State the Arnold-Liouville theorem.

Consider an integrable system with six-dimensional phase space, and assume that p=0\nabla \wedge \mathbf{p}=0 on any Liouville tori pi=pi(qj,cj)p_{i}=p_{i}\left(q_{j}, c_{j}\right), where =(/q1,/q2,/q3)\nabla=\left(\partial / \partial q_{1}, \partial / \partial q_{2}, \partial / \partial q_{3}\right).

(a) Define the action variables and use Stokes' theorem to show that the actions are independent of the choice of the cycles.

(b) Define the generating function, and show that the angle coordinates are periodic with period 2π2 \pi.

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