Liouville: cosmic-ray phase-space density f(x,p) conserved along trajectories

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Liouville phase-space framework — the Hamiltonian-mechanics basis for cosmic-ray propagation theory and phase-space conservation (Liouville 1838; textbook exposition: Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics §12.6; Ginzburg & Syrovatskii, Origin…

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