Variational symmetries as the existence of ignorable coordinates
General Physics
2017-01-19 v1
Abstract
It is shown that given a Lagrangian for a system with a finite number of degrees of freedom, the existence of a variational symmetry is equivalent to the existence of coordinates in the extended configuration space such that one of the coordinates is ignorable.
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@article{arxiv.1609.09330,
title = {Variational symmetries as the existence of ignorable coordinates},
author = {G. F. Torres del Castillo and I. Rubalcava-García},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09330},
year = {2017}
}