Critical points of a Hamiltonian system

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Hello. I'm studying for an ODE/PDE qualifier and I'm wondering how to do this problem. I feel like it should be pretty easy, but anyway..

Show that a Hamiltonian system in [tex]\mathbb{R}^{2n}[/tex] has no asymptotically stable critical points.

Any suggestions? Thanks..
 
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I think Liouville's theorem will put this through.