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This paper expounds the relations between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities, i.e. Noether's ``first theorem'', in both the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian frameworks for classical mechanics. This illustrates one of mechanics' grand…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Butterfield

Liouville's theorem -- the preservation of phase-space volume -- is often presented as a corollary of Hamilton's canonical equations. Here we adopt an ensemble-first viewpoint in which the starting point is local probability conservation on…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-12-23 Enmanuel Rodríguez-Brea , Melvin Arias

We give conserved quantities of two generalizations of conformal circles on the conformal sphere. One generalization concerns curves carrying a distinguished parallel tractor along them, which can be used to construct the conserved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Prim Plansangkate , Lenka Zalabová

The Reynolds transport theorem provides a generalized conservation law for the transport of a conserved quantity by fluid flow through a continuous connected control volume. It is close connected to the Liouville equation for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Robert K. Niven , Laurent Cordier , Eurika Kaiser , Michael Schlegel , Bernd R. Noack

Noticing that the space of the solutions of a first order Hamiltonian field theory has a pre-symplectic structure, we describe a class of conserved charges on it associated to the momentum map determined by any symmetry group of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo , Luca Schiavone , Alessandro Zampini

We show that probability is locally conserved in discrete time quantum walks, corresponding to a particle evolving in discrete space and time. In particular, for a spatial structure represented by an arbitrary directed graph, and any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Samuel T. Mister , Benjamin J. Arayathel , Anthony J. Short

Recent developments have extended the concept of global symmetries in several directions, offering new perspectives across a wide range of physical systems. This work shows that generalized global symmetries naturally emerge in shallow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 V. Taghiloo , M. H. Vahidinia

It is well known that the time dependent harmonic oscillator possesses a conserved quantity, usually called Ermakov-Lewis invariant. I provide a simple physical interpretation of this invariant as well as a whole family of related…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 T. Padmanabhan

Using the concept of variational tricomplex endowed with a presymplectic structure, we formulate the general notion of symmetry. We show that each generalized symmetry of a gauge system gives rise to a sequence of conservation laws that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Alexey A. Sharapov

The existence of conserved quantities with a structure similar to the Newman-Penrose quantities in a polyhomogeneous space-time is addressed. The most general form for the initial data formally consistent with the polyhomogeneous setting is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Valiente Kroon

Generalising a result of classical mechanics an infinite set of conserved quantities can be found for the bare equations of motion describing the evolution of a scalar field in out of equilibrium quantum field theory, in the large N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien F. J. Salgado

A covariant algorithm for deriving the conserved quantities for natural Hamiltonian systems is combined with the non-relativistic framework of Eisenhart, and of Duval, in which the classical trajectories arise as geodesics in a higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Cariglia , G. W. Gibbons , J. -W. van Holten , P. A. Horvathy , P. -M. Zhang

It is known that corresponding to each isometry there exist a conserved quantity. It is also known that the Lagrangian of the line element of a space is conserved. Here we investigate the possibility of the existence of "new" conserved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Tooba Feroze

In Hamiltonian mechanics, a (continuous) symmetry leads to conserved quantity, which is a function on (extended) phase space. In Nambu mechanics, a straightforward consequence of symmetry is just a relative integral invariant, a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Marian Fecko

The dynamics of an M-dimensional extended object whose M+1 dimensional world volume in M+2 dimensional space-time has vanishing mean curvature is formulated in term of geometrical variables (the first and second fundamental form of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jens Hoppe

We provide a complete classification of point symmetries and low-order local conservation laws of the generalized quasilinear KdV equation in terms of the arbitrary function. The corresponding interpretation of symmetry transformation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-02-08 María de los Santos Bruzón , Elena Recio , Tamara María Garrido , Rafael de la Rosa

Hyperbolic conservation laws posed on manifolds arise in many applications to geophysical flows and general relativity. Recent work by the author and his collaborators attempts to set the foundations for a study of weak solutions defined on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Philippe G. LeFloch

For the Yang-Mills-type gauge-field theory with Lorentz symmetry group, we propose and verify an explicit expression for the conserved currents in terms of the energy-momentum tensor. A crucial ingredient is the assumption that the gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Hans Christian Öttinger

This paper expounds the modern theory of symplectic reduction in finite-dimensional Hamiltonian mechanics. This theory generalizes the well-known connection between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities, i.e. Noether's theorem. It…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Butterfield

We consider nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, posed on a differential (n+1)-manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime, and in which the "flux" is defined as a flux field of n-forms depending on a parameter (the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-02 Philippe G. LeFloch , Baver Okutmustur