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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

We extend Noether's symmetry theorem to fractional action-like variational problems with higher-order derivatives.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

The time dependent-integrals of motion, linear in position and momentum operators, of a quantum system are extracted from Noether's theorem prescription by means of special time-dependent variations of coordinates. For the stationary case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Castaños , R. López-Peña , V. I. Man'ko

We present a general algorithm constructing a discretization of a classical field theory from a Lagrangian. We prove a new discrete Noether theorem relating symmetries to conservation laws and an energy conservation theorem not based on any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mikhail Skopenkov

Noether's theorem connects symmetries to invariants in continuous systems, however its extension to discrete systems has remained elusive. Recognizing the lowest-order finite difference as the foundation of local continuity, a viable method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Samuel Richard Totorica

We prove a Noether type symmetry theorem to fractional problems of the calculus of variations with classical and Riemann-Liouville derivatives. As result, we obtain constants of motion (in the classical sense) that are valid along the mixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

Noether's First Theorem yields conservation laws for Lagrangians 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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Tania M. N. Goncalves , Elizabeth L. Mansfield

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

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

A simple proof of Noether's first theorem involves the promotion of a constant symmetry parameter $\epsilon$ to an arbitrary function of time, the Noether charge $Q$ is then the coefficient of $\dot\epsilon$ in the variation of the action.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 Paul K. Townsend

Noether's theorem is a fundamental result in physics stating that every symmetry of the dynamics implies a conservation law. It is, however, deficient in several respects: (i) it is not applicable to dynamics wherein the system interacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Conservation laws related to the gauge invariance of Lagrangians and Euler-Lagrange operators in finite and infinite order Lagrangian formalisms are analyzed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily

The aim of this note is to discuss the relation between one-parameter continuous symmetries of the dynamics, defined on physical grounds, and conservation laws. In the Hamiltonian formulation, such symmetries of the dynamics in general…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Franco Strocchi

A general variational principle of classical fields with a Lagrangian containing the field quantity and its derivatives of up to the N-th order is presented. Noether's theorem is derived. The generalized Hamilton-Jacobi's equation for the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Zhaoyan Wu

Noether's theorem provides a powerful link between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities for systems governed by some variational principle. Perhaps unfortunately, most dynamical systems of interest in neuroscience and artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 John J. Vastola

We derive conservation and balance laws for the translational gauge theory of dislocations by applying Noether's theorem. We present an improved translational gauge theory of dislocations including the dislocation density tensor and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Lazar , Charalampos Anastassiadis

The invariance theorems obtained in analytical mechanics and derived from Noether's theorems can be adapted to fluid mechanics. For this purpose, it is useful to give a functional representation of the fluid motion and to interpret the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Henri Gouin

Because scaling symmetries of the Euler-Lagrange equations are generally not variational symmetries of the action, they do not lead to conservation laws. Instead, an extension of Noether's theorem reduces the equations of motion to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Sidney Bludman , Dallas C. Kennedy

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

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