The Liouville equation as a Hamiltonian system (Q2210376)

The author considers smooth dynamical systems on closed manifolds with invariant measure. The evolution of the density of a nonstationary invariant measure is described by the well-known Liouville equation and for ergodic dynamical systems, the latter is expressed in Hamiltonian form. An infinite collection of quadratic invariants that are pairwise in involution with respect to the Poisson bracket generated by the Hamiltonian structure is indicated. Some remarks and open questions are mentioned at the end of the paper.