Jacobi Group Symmetry of Hamilton's Mechanics
Abstract
We show that the diffeomorphisms of an extended phase space with time, energy, momentum and position degrees of freedom that leave invariant the symplectic 2-form and and a degenerate orthogonal metric dt2 locally satisfy Hamilton's equations up to the usual canonical transformations on the position-momentum subspace.
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