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Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first integral: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Sidney Bludman , Dallas C. Kennedy

Kelvin's Theorem on conservation of circulations is an essential ingredient of G. I. Taylor's theory of turbulent energy dissipation by the process of vortex-line stretching. In previous work, we have proposed a nonlinear mechanism for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gregory L. Eyink

Noether's Theorem yields conservation laws for a Lagrangian with a variational symmetry group. The explicit formulae for the laws are well known and the symmetry group is known to act on the linear space generated by the conservation laws.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-23 Tania M. N. Goncalves , Elizabeth L. Mansfield

In atmospheric science, slice models are frequently used to study the behaviour of weather, and specifically the formation of atmospheric fronts, whose prediction is fundamental in meteorology. In 2013, Cotter and Holm introduced a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Diego Alonso-Orán , Aythami Bethencourt de León

This paper mainly contributes to the extension of Noether's theorem to differential-difference equations. For that purpose, we first investigate the prolongation formula for continuous symmetries, which makes a characteristic representation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Linyu Peng

Conservation laws of a class of time-dependent damped nonlinear multidimensional wave equations are derived by Noether's theorem. For arbitrary nonzero damping coefficient and nonlinear interaction term, its infinitesimal variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 F. Güngör , C. Özemir

A systematic analysis of the discrete conservation properties of non-dissipative, central-difference approximations of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations is reported. A general triple splitting of the nonlinear convective terms is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Gennaro Coppola , Francesco Capuano , Sergio Pirozzoli , Luigi de Luca

In this communication, the closure formulas of von K\'arm\'an--Howarth and Corrsin equations are obtained through the Liouville theorem and the hypothesis of homogeneous isotropic incompressible turbulence. Such closures, based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-11 Nicola de Divitiis

The Kelvin-Helmholtz theorem on conservation of circulations is supposed to hold for ideal inviscid fluids and is believed to be play a crucial role in turbulent phenomena, such as production of dissipation by vortex line-stretching.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shiyi Chen , Gregory L. Eyink , Minping Wan , Zuoli Xiao

We construct Lie point symmetries, a closed-form solution and conservation laws using a non-Noetherian approach for a specific case of the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad equation that has been recast for the study of non-relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Mervlyn Moodley , Francesco Petruccione

We examine the assumptions behind Noether's theorem connecting symmetries and conservation laws. To compare classical and quantum versions of this theorem, we take an algebraic approach. In both classical and quantum mechanics, observables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 John C. Baez

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

One of the most important conservation laws in atmospheric and oceanic science is conservation of potential vorticity. The original derivation is approximately a century old, in the work of Rossby and Ertel, and it is related to the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Parvathi Kooloth , Leslie M. Smith , Samuel N. Stechmann

Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first-order equation: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Sidney Bludman

We derive the Noether identities and the conservation laws for general gravitational models with arbitrarily interacting matter and gravitational fields. These conservation laws are used for the construction of the covariant equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-22 Yuri N. Obukhov , Dirk Puetzfeld

Noether's calculus of invariant variations yields exact identities from functional symmetries. The standard application to an action integral allows to identify conservation laws. Here we rather consider generating functionals, such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-16 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

We apply Noether's theorem to show how the invariances of conservative systems are broken for nonconservative systems, in the variational formulation of Galley. This formulation considers a conservative action, extended by the inclusion of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 N. E. Martínez-Pérez , C. Ramírez

Invariance theorems in analytical mechanics, such as Noether's theorem, can be adapted to continuum mechanics. For this purpose, it is useful to give a functional representation of the motion and to interpret the groups of invariance with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Henri Gouin

We construct a scattering theory of weakly nonlinear thermoelectric transport through sub-micron scale conductors. The theory incorporates the leading nonlinear contributions in temperature and voltage biases to the charge and heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan Meair , Philippe Jacquod

The recently discovered conserved quantity associated with Kepler rescaling is generalised by an extension of Noether's theorem which involves the classical action integral as an additional term. For a free particle the familiar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 P. -M. Zhang , M. Elbistan , P. A. Horvathy , P. Kosinski