Abstract
It is shown that any generator of the infinite-dimensional canonical transformation group in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics can be obtained as a linear combination of repeated commutators of generators of two finite-dimensional subgroups. This result has some structural similarity with the Ogievetsky theorem (1973) concerning the algebra of the general coordinate transformation group in the theory of relativity.
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