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In Sections 1 and 2 of this chapter we introduce the classical theory of Hamiltonian systems, study the relation between such systems and the canonical transformations, and then study the generating functions of canonical transformations.
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Long, Y. (2002). Hamiltonian systems and canonical transformations. In: Index Theory for Symplectic Paths with Applications. Progress in Mathematics, vol 207. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8175-3_3
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