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Arbitrary diffeomorphically invariant metric-torsion theories of gravity are considered. It is assumed that Lagrangians of such theories contain derivatives of field variables (tensor densities of arbitrary ranks and weights) up to a second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-02 Robert R. Lompay , Alexander N. Petrov

We present a variational approach which shows that the wave functions belonging to quantum systems in different potential landscapes, are pairwise linked to each other through a generalized continuity equation. This equation contains a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Fotis K. Diakonos , Peter Schmelcher

Any local field theory can be equivalently reformulated in the so-called unfolded form. General unfolded equations are non-Lagrangian even though the original theory is Lagrangian. Using the theory of a scalar field as a basic example, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-24 D. S. Kaparulin , S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

The geometric Lagrangian theory (of arbitrary order) is based on the analysis of some basic mathematical objects such as: the contact ideal, the (exact) variational sequence, the existence of Euler-Lagrange and Helmholtz-Sonin forms, etc.…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Dan Radu Grigore

A description of how the principle of stationary action reproduces itself in terms of the intrinsic geometry of variational equations is proposed. A notion of stationary points of an internal Lagrangian is introduced. A connection between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Kostya Druzhkov

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

A class of generalized nonlinear p-Laplacian evolution equations is studied. These equations model radial diffusion-reaction processes in $n\geq 1$ dimensions, where the diffusivity depends on the gradient of the flow. For this class, all…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Elena Recio , Stephen C. Anco

In this paper, we investigate the conservation laws of different type of particles in theories with a universal gravity/matter coupling. The result brings new insights about previous studies on universal gravity/matter theories. Especially,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-03 Olivier Minazzoli

New Lagrangians, depending on the field strengths and the electric and magnetic sources are found, which lead to the Maxwell equations. One new feature is that the equations of motion are obtained by varying the Lagrangian with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gersten

Classifications of symmetries and conservation laws are presented for a variety of physically and analytically interesting wave equations with power onlinearities in n spatial dimensions: a radial hyperbolic equation, a radial Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen C. Anco , Nataliya M. Ivanova

We develop a general approach, based on the Lagrange-Noether machinery, to the definition of invariant conserved currents for gravity theories with general coordinate and local Lorentz symmetries. In this framework, every vector field \xi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri N. Obukhov , Guillermo F. Rubilar

Flows of one-dimensional continuum in Lagrangian coordinates are studied in the paper. Equations describing these flows are reduced to a single Euler-Lagrange equation which contains two undefined functions. Particular choices of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 E. I. Kaptsov , S. V. Meleshko

We reformulate the standard Lagrangian formalism to a reparameterisation invariant Lagrangian formalism by means of Finsler and Kawaguchi geometry. In our formalism, various types of symmetries that appears in theories of physics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Takayoshi Ootsuka , Ryoko Yahagi , Muneyuki Ishida , Erico Tanaka

The one-dimensional shallow water equations in Eulerian coordinates are considered. Relations between symmetries and conservation laws for the potential form of the equations, and symmetries and conservation laws in Eulerian coordinates are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-18 V. A. Dorodnitsyn , E. I. Kaptsov

A variational principle for Lagrangian densities containing derivatives of real order is formulated and the invariance of this principle is studied in two characteristic cases. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an infinitesimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Teodor M. Atanackovic , Sanja Konjik , Stevan Pilipovic , Srboljub Simic

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 propose a geometrical treatment of symmetries in non-local field theories, where the non-locality is due to a lack of identification of field arguments in the action. We show that the existence of a symmetry of the action leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-07 Alexander Kegeles , Daniele Oriti

Lagrangian contact supersymmetries (depending on derivatives of arbitrary order) are treated in very general setting. The cohomology of the variational bicomplex on an arbitrary graded manifold and the iterated cohomology of a generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

The concept of nonlinear self-adjointness is employed to construct the conservation laws for fractional evolution equations using its Lie point symmetries. The approach is demonstrated on subdiffusion and diffusion-wave equations with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Stanislav Yu. Lukashchuk

The ``standard'' expressions for total energy, linear momentum and also angular momentum of asymptotically flat Bondi metrics at null infinity are also obtained from differential conservation laws on asymptotically flat backgrounds, derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph Katz , Dorit Lerer