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Why is the integral of the tautological 1-form equal to the action?

I am having a hard time to understand why the integral of the tautological 1-form is the action of the system. The tautological one form is defined by : \begin{align} \theta_{(q,p)} : T_{(q,p)}T^*Q &...
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