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On the Vanishing Boundary Terms of Noether's Conservation Laws

Differential Geometry 2013-01-01 v2

Abstract

In the process of calculating Noether's conservation laws, two sets of integration by parts are performed. Here it is shown why the boundary terms from the first set of integration by parts vanish.

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@article{arxiv.1112.4085,
  title  = {On the Vanishing Boundary Terms of Noether's Conservation Laws},
  author = {Tânia M. N. Gonçalves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4085},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author, since it has been included in the paper "Moving Frames and Conservation Laws for Euclidean Invariant Lagrangians"