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According to Noether's theorem the presence of a continuous symmetry in a Hamiltonian systems is equivalent to the existence of a conserved quantity, yet these symmetries are not always explicitly enforced in data-driven models. There…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Henri Klintebäck , Christoph Ortner , Lior Silberman

Understanding the dynamics of neural network parameters during training is one of the key challenges in building a theoretical foundation for deep learning. A central obstacle is that the motion of a network in high-dimensional parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Daniel Kunin , Javier Sagastuy-Brena , Surya Ganguli , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Hidenori Tanaka

A new symmetry for Newtonian Dynamics is analyzed, this corresponds to going to an accelerated frame, which introduces a constant gravitational field into the system and subsequently. We consider the addition of a linear contribution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 E. I. Guendelman , E. Zamlung , D. Benisty

When discussing consequences of symmetries of dynamical systems based on Noether's first theorem, most standard textbooks on classical or quantum mechanics present a conclusion stating that a global continuous Lie symmetry implies the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Daddy Balondo Iyela , Jan Govaerts

In contact Hamiltonian systems, the so-called dissipated quantities are akin to conserved quantities in classical Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we prove a Noether's theorem for non-autonomous contact Hamiltonian systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Jordi Gaset , Asier López-Gordón , Xavier Rivas

Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are exact identities that involve statistically averaged forces and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-04 Silas Robitschko , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Sophie Hermann

We discuss geometric properties of non-Noether symmetries and their possible applications in integrable Hamiltonian systems. Correspondence between non-Noether symmetries and conservation laws is revisited. It is shown that in regular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Chavchanidze

Noether's theorem is reviewed with a particular focus on an intermediate step between global and local gauge and coordinate transformations, namely linear transformations. We rederive the well known result that global symmetry leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Leclerc

The Noether-Bessel-Hagen theorem can be considered a natural extension of Noether Theorem to search for symmetries. Here, we develop the approach for dynamical systems introducing the basic foundations of the method. Specifically, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Zbynek Urban , Francesco Bajardi , Salvatore Capozziello

A geometric framework, called multicontact geometry, has recently been developed to study action-dependent field theories. In this work, we use this framework to analyze symmetries in action-dependent Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy , Bartosz M. Zawora

We review the Lagrangian formulation of Noether symmetries (as well as "generalized Noether symmetries") in the framework of Calculus of Variations in Jet Bundles, with a special attention to so-called "Natural Theories" and "Gauge-Natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-19 L. Fatibene , M. Francaviglia , S. Mercadante

There exist instances of dynamical systems possessing symmetry transformations of which the conserved Noether charges generating these symmetries feature an explicit time dependence in their functional representation over phase space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-02 Jan Govaerts

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 sketch the main features of the Noether Symmetry Approach, a method to reduce and solve dynamics of physical systems by selecting Noether symmetries, which correspond to conserved quantities. Specifically, we take into account the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Francesco Bajardi , Salvatore Capozziello , Tiziana Di Salvo , Francesca Spinnato

We summarize the use of Noether symmetries in Minisuperspace Quantum Cosmology. In particular, we consider minisuperspace models, showing that the existence of conserved quantities gives selection rules that allow to recover classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-07 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

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

Noether's theorem is widely regarded as one of the most elegant results in theoretical physics. The article presents two simple examples that can be used to demonstrate the basic idea behind Noether's theorem, by deriving a relation between…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Markus Pössel

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

Detecting symmetry from data is a fundamental problem in signal analysis, providing insight into underlying structure and constraints. When data emerge as trajectories of dynamical systems, symmetries encode structural properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Ziad Ghanem , Chang Hyunwoong , Preskella Mrad

A simple implementation of Noether's theorem for discrete symmetries in relativistic continuum field theories is presented. The associated conserved current is exemplified by charge conjugation and a cyclic symmetry. In addition, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Gerhart Seidl