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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 quantum effective action yields equations of motion and correlation functions including all quantum corrections. We discuss here how it encodes also Noether currents at the full quantum level. Interestingly, the construction can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-05 Stefan Floerchinger , Eduardo Grossi

Noether's theorem is a cornerstone of analytical mechanics, making the link between symmetries and conserved quantities. In this article, I propose a simple, geometric derivation of this theorem that circumvents the usual difficulties that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Bahram Houchmandzadeh

We extend the second Noether theorem to optimal control problems which are invariant under symmetries depending upon k arbitrary functions of the independent variable and their derivatives up to some order m. As far as we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Delfim F. M. Torres

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

I exhibit the conflicting roles of Noether's two great theorems in defining conserved quantities, especially Energy in General Relativity and its extensions: It is the breaking of coordinate invariance through boundary conditions that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-02 S. Deser

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

A didactic and systematic derivation of Noether point symmetries and conserved currents is put forward in special relativistic field theories, without a priori assumptions about the transformation laws. Given the Lagrangian density, the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Fernando Haas

The invariance of the Lagrangian under time translations and rotations in Kepler's problem yields the conservation laws related to the energy and angular momentum. Noether's theorem reveals that these same symmetries furnish generalized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Javier Roa

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

We extend the second Noether theorem to fractional variational problems which are invariant under infinitesimal transformations that depend upon $r$ arbitrary functions and their fractional derivatives in the sense of Caputo. Our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Agnieszka B. Malinowska

The foundations of Statistical Mechanics can be recovered almost in their entirety from the Principle of Maximum Entropy. In this work we show that its non-equilibrium generalization, the Principle of Maximum Caliber (Jaynes, 1980), when…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-01 Diego González , Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Gutiérrez

Using a generalised Noether prescription we are able to extract all the currents and their conservation laws in space dependent shift symmetric theories. Various identities among the currents in the matter sector are found that form the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Rabin Banerjee , Anwesha Chakraborty

We extend the DuBois-Reymond necessary optimality condition and Noether's symmetry theorem to the scale relativity theory setting. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian versions of Noether's theorem are proved, covering problems of the calculus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 Jacky Cresson , Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

We work out the most general theory for the interaction of spacetime geometry and matter fields -- commonly referred to as geometrodynamics -- for spin-$0$ and spin-$1$ particles. The minimum set of postulates to be introduced is that (i)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Jürgen Struckmeier , David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch

Starting from a general classical model of many interacting particles we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the continuum-mechanics equations of nonlinear elasticity theory with fluctuations which describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-02 Rudolf Haussmann

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

Electromagnetism contains an infinite dimensional symmetry group of large gauge transformations. This gives rise to an infinite number of conserved quantities called "soft charges" via Noether's theorem. When charged particles scatter, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 Noah Miller

New symmetry theorems are obtained for field theories formulated in Minkowski spacetime, based on the recognition that such theories should be diffeomorphism invariant. These theorems, which are in fact generalized Noether theorems, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-10 M. Holman

We consider a broad class of systems of nonlinear integro-differential equations posed on the real line that arise as Euler-Lagrange equations to energies involving nonlinear nonlocal interactions. Although these equations are not readily…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Bente Bakker , Arnd Scheel