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The relation between symmetries and local conservation laws, known as Noether's theorem, plays an important role in modern theoretical physics. As a discrete analog of the differentiable physical system, a good numerical scheme should admit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Qiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiang Chen , Lifei Geng

In this paper, we study a class of fractional optimal control problems. A necessary condition for the existence of an optimal control is provided in the literature. It is commonly given as the existence of a solution of a fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Loïc Bourdin

The construction of fractional derivatives with the right properties for use in field theory is reputed to be a difficult task, essentially because of the absence of a unique definition and uniform properties. The conformable fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jean-Paul Anagonou , Vincent Lahoche , Dine Ousmane Samary

We prove that under certain assumptions a partial differential equation can be derived from a variational principle. It is well-known from Noether's theorem that symmetries of a variational functional lead to conservation laws of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Markus Dafinger

We establish a new version of the first Noether Theorem, according to which the (equivalence classes of) first integrals of given Euler-Lagrange equations in one independent variable are in exact one-to-one correspondence with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Emanuele Fiorani , Andrea Spiro

We propose a novel algorithmic method for constructing invariant variational schemes of systems of ordinary differential equations that are the Euler-Lagrange equations of a variational principle. The method is based on the invariantization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Alex Bihlo , James Jackaman , Francis Valiquette

We study differential systems for which it is possible to establish a correspondence between symmetries and conservation laws based on Noether identity: quasi-Noether systems. We analyze Noether identity and show that it leads to the same…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 V. Rosenhaus , Ravi Shankar

A didactic and systematic derivation of Noether point symmetries and conserved currents is put forward in special relativistic field theories, without a priori assumptions about the transformation laws. Given the Lagrangian density, the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Fernando Haas

The concept of nonlinear self-adjointness is employed to construct the conservation laws for fractional evolution equations using its Lie point symmetries. The approach is demonstrated on subdiffusion and diffusion-wave equations with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Stanislav Yu. Lukashchuk

We extend Noether's theorem to dynamical optimal control systems being under the action of nonconservative forces. A systematic way of calculating conservation laws for nonconservative optimal control problems is given. As a corollary, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper, within the framework of the consistent approach recently introduced for approximate Lie symmetries of differential equations, we consider approximate Noether symmetries of variational problems involving small terms. Then, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 M. Gorgone , F. Oliveri

Though a global Chern-Simons (2k-1)-form is not gauge invariant, this form seen as a Lagrangian of higher-dimensional gauge theory leads to the conservation law of a modified Noether current.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

This paper develops moving frame theory for partial difference equations and for differential-difference equations with one continuous independent variable. In each case, the theory is applied to the invariant calculus of variations and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Lewis C. White , Peter E. Hydon

We establish a version of the first Noether Theorem, according to which the (equivalence classes of) conserved quantities of given Euler-Lagrange equations in several independent variables are in one-to-one correspondence with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Emanuele Fiorani , Sandra Germani , Andrea Spiro

By considering the closure property of a Lagrangian multiform as a conservation law, we use Noether's theorem to show that every variational symmetry of a Lagrangian leads to a Lagrangian multiform. In doing so, we provide a systematic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 D. G. Sleigh , F. W. Nijhoff , V. Caudrelier

We give a version of Noether theorem adapted to the framework of mu-symmetries; this extends to such case recent work by Muriel, Romero and Olver in the framework of lambda-symmetries, and connects mu-symmetries of a Lagrangian to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Cicogna , G. Gaeta

The first and second Noether theorems are formulated in a general case of reducible degenerate Grassmann-graded Lagrangian theory of even and odd variables on graded bundles. Such Lagrangian theory is characterized by a hierarchy of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 G. Sardanashvily

A class of generalized Galileon cosmological models, which can be described by a point-like Lagrangian, is considered in order to utilize Noether's Theorem to determine conservation laws for the field equations. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-23 N. Dimakis , Alex Giacomini , Sameerah Jamal , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Noether's theorem is an elegant and powerful tool of classical mechanics, but it is of little to no consequence in discrete theories. Here we define and explore a discrete approach to covariant mechanics and show that within this framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-26 Fabio D'Ambrosio

English version of abstract: The dynamic optimization problems treated by the calculus of variations are usually solved with the help of the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange differential equations. These equations are, generally speaking,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Paulo D. F. Gouveia , Delfim F. M. Torres