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Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2026-01-21 v2 Classical Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

We propose a data-driven Machine-Learning Symmetry Discovery (MLSD) framework for identifying continuous symmetry generators and their Lie-algebraic structure directly from phase-space trajectory data expressed in canonical coordinates. MLSD parameterizes candidate conserved quantities with neural networks and learns antisymmetric structure coefficients by enforcing Poisson-bracket closure, supplemented by a weak independence regularizer. We validate MLSD on two integrable benchmark systems -- the three-dimensional Kepler problem and the three-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator -- recovering the expected non-Abelian algebras (respectively so(4)\mathfrak{so}(4) and su(3)\mathfrak{su}(3)) up to basis transformations. This work focuses on integrable benchmark dynamics, where global conserved quantities are well-defined and admit compact representations learnable from canonical-coordinate trajectories. Extending symmetry discovery to mixed or chaotic phase-space regimes is an important direction for future work.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14632,
  title  = {Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics},
  author = {Wanda Hou and Molan Li and Yi-Zhuang You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14632},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages + references, 8 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:41:50.457Z