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Sign of the action for the harmonic osccilator?
I am confused about the derivation of the action $S(x,\mathbf{J})$ for a harmonic oscillator as given at page 219 in "Galactic Dynamics", J.Binney-S. Tremaine, 2nd Ed. 2008. The part of the derivation ...