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Symmetries are defined in histories-based generalized quantum mechanics paying special attention to the class of history theories admitting quasitemporal structure (a generalization of the concept of `temporal sequences' of `events' using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tulsi Dass , Yogesh N. Joglekar

It's well known that Noether symmetries lead to the conservation laws. Conserved quantities are constructed out of generator of the symmetry - invariant Hamiltonian vector field. Considering more general class of vector fields -…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 George Chavchanidze

Symmetries have proven useful in machine learning models, improving generalisation and overall performance. At the same time, recent advancements in learning dynamical systems rely on modelling the underlying Hamiltonian to guarantee the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Mark van der Wilk , Pim de Haan

In this paper we study symmetries, Newtonoid vector fields, conservation laws, Noether's Theorem and its converse, in the framework of the $k$-symplectic formalism, using the Fr\"olicher-Nijenhuis formalism on the space of $k^1$-velocities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Lucía Bua , Ioan Bucataru , Modesto Salgado

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

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

In the present work, we formulate a generalization of the Noether Theorem for action-dependent Lagrangian functions. The Noether's theorem is one of the most important theorems for physics. It is well known that all conservation laws,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 M. J. Lazo , J. Paiva , G. S. F. Frederico

Noether theorem establishes an interesting connection between symmetries of the action integral and conservation laws of a dynamical system. The aim of the present work is to classify the damped harmonic oscillator problem with respect to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 M. Umar Farooq , M. Safdar

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

Noether's theorem on the equivalence of symmetry and conservation laws has applications to geometric problems on symmetric spaces. We remind the reader of the theorem and give an application to a variational problem on hyperbolic surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Karen Uhlenbeck

A didatic approach of the Noether's theorem in classical mechanics is derived and used to obtain the laws of conservation.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rubens de Melo Marinho

Following the analysis we have presented in a previous paper (that we refer to as [I]), we describe a Noether theorem related to symmetries, with the associated reduction procedures, for classical dynamics within the Lagrangian and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 giuseppe marmo , luca schiavone , alessandro zampini

We present an old and regretfully forgotten method by Jacobi which allows one to find many Lagrangians of simple classical models and also of nonconservative systems. We underline that the knowledge of Lie symmetries generates Jacobi last…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. C. Nucci

We revisit the thermodynamic aspects of the scalar-tensor theory of gravity in the Jordan and in the Einstein frame. Examining the {\it missing links} of this theory carefully, we establish the thermodynamic descriptions from the conserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In Ref.~\cite{Sag} we proposed a geometric formulation of generalized Nambu mechanics. In the present paper we extend the class of Nambu systems by replacing the stringent condition of constancy of 3-form by closedness. We also explore the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sagar A. Pandit , Anil D. Gangal

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

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 propose a unified framework for random locations exhibiting some probabilistic symmetries such as stationarity, self-similarity, etc. A theorem of Noether's type is proved, which gives rise to a conservation law describing the change of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Shunlong Luo , Jie Shen , Yi Shen

In the summer of 1918, Emmy Noether published the theorem that now bears her name, establishing a profound two-way connection between symmetries and conservation laws. The influence of this insight is pervasive in physics; it underlies all…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Chris Quigg

We discuss the relation between symmetries and conservation laws in the realm of classical field theories based on the Hamiltonian constraint. In this approach, spacetime positions and field values are treated on equal footing, and a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Vaclav Zatloukal