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This paper presents recent work on connections between symmetries and conservation laws. After reviewing Noether's theorem and its limitations, we present the Direct Construction Method to show how to find directly the conservation laws for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 George Bluman

This Letter probes the existence of physical laws invariant only in average when subjected to some transformation. The concept of a symmetry transformation is broadened to include corruption by random noise and average symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-07 Roberto C. Alamino

A simple local proof of Noether's Second Theorem is given. This proof immediately leads to a generalization of the theorem, yielding conservation laws and/or explicit relationships between the Euler--Lagrange equations of any variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter E. Hydon , Elizabeth L. Mansfield

Asymmetry of quantum states is a useful resource in applications such as quantum metrology, quantum communication, and reference frame alignment. However, asymmetry of a state tends to be degraded in physical scenarios where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Da-Jian Zhang , Xiao-Dong Yu , Hua-Lin Huang , D. M. Tong

The solution of time dependent differential equations with neural networks has attracted a lot of attention recently. The central idea is to learn the laws that govern the evolution of the solution from data, which might be polluted with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Eike Hermann Müller

It is well-known that all 2d models of gravity---including theories with nonvanishing torsion and dilaton theories---can be solved exactly, if matter interactions are absent. An absolutely (in space and time) conserved quantity determines…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 W. Kummer , G. Tieber

All low-order conservation laws are found for a general class of nonlinear wave equations in one dimension with linear damping which is allowed to be time-dependent. Such equations arise in numerous physical applications and have attracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Stephen C. Anco , Almudena P. Marquez , Tamara M. Garrido , Maria L. Gandarias

In the present paper geometric aspects of relationship between non-Noether symmetries and conservation laws in Hamiltonian systems is discussed. It is shown that integrals of motion associated with continuous non-Noether symmetry are in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Chavchanidze

Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are exact identities that involve statistically averaged forces and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-04 Silas Robitschko , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Sophie Hermann

We prove a Noether-type symmetry theorem for invariant optimal control problems with unrestricted controls. The result establishes weak conservation laws along all the minimizers of the problems, including those minimizers which do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-04 Delfim F. M. Torres

We consider the problem of a conditional extremum of an action in a class of fields constrained by differential equations. For this setup, we propose an extension of Noether's first theorem to connect the symmetries of the action and the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 S. L. Lyakhovich , S. B. Sayapin , I. A. Zubareva

A geometric framework, called multicontact geometry, has recently been developed to study action-dependent field theories. In this work, we use this framework to analyze symmetries in action-dependent Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy , Bartosz M. Zawora

In our previous paper, the concept of sub-symmetry of a differential system was introduced, and its properties and some applications were studied. It was shown that sub-symmetries are important in decoupling a differential system, and in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 V Rosenhaus , Ravi Shankar

Noether's theorem is one of the fundamental laws of physics, relating continuous symmetries and conserved currents. Here we explore the role of Noether's theorem at the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP), which is the quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-07 Nvsen Ma , Yi-Zhuang You , Zi Yang Meng

A general theorem on conservation laws for arbitrary difference equations is proved. The theorem is based on an introduction of an adjoint system related with a given difference system, and it does not require the existence of a difference…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Linyu Peng

A simple implementation of Noether's theorem for discrete symmetries in relativistic continuum field theories is presented. The associated conserved current is exemplified by charge conjugation and a cyclic symmetry. In addition, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Gerhart Seidl

The universal principle obtained by Emmy Noether in 1918, asserts that the invariance of a variational problem with respect to a one-parameter family of symmetry transformations implies the existence of a conserved quantity along the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Delfim F. M. Torres

In this article, we will review Noether's Theorems and their application in General Relativity. We will present Noether's Theorems in their original form and restate them as they are usually applied to physics. Some basic equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Robert J. McLeod

The dynamics of a physical system is linked to its phase-space geometry by Noether's theorem, which holds under standard hypotheses including continuity. Does an analogous theorem hold for discrete systems? As a testbed, we take the Ising…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2011-04-05 Silvio Capobianco , Tommaso Toffoli

Why is gauge symmetry so important in modern physics, given that one must eliminate it when interpreting what the theory represents? In this paper we discuss the sense in which gauge symmetry can be fruitfully applied to constrain the space…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Bryan W. Roberts , Henrique Gomes , Jeremy Butterfield