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Consideration of the Noether variational problem for any theory whose action is invariant under global and/or local gauge transformations leads to three distinct theorems. These include the familiar Noether theorem, but also two equally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Katherine Brading , Harvey R. Brown

In this paper, we develop an algebraic approach to classifying contact symmetries of the second-order nonlinear evolution equations. Up to contact isomorphisms, all inequivalent PDEs admitting semi-simple algebras, solvable algebras of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Qing Huang , Renat Zhdanov , Changzheng Qu

We analyse the underlying nonlinear partial differential equation which arises in the study of gravitating flat fluid plates of embedding class one. Our interest in this equation lies in discussing new solutions that can be found by means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 A. M. Msomi , K. S. Govinder , S. D. Maharaj

We examine the total mixed scalar curvature of a fixed distribution as a functional of a pseudo-Riemannian metric. We develop variational formulas for quantities of extrinsic geometry of the distribution to find the critical points of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Vladimir Rovenski , Tomasz Zawadzki

A {\it Lie system} is a nonautonomous system of first-order differential equations admitting a {\it superposition rule}, i.e., a map expressing its general solution in terms of a generic family of particular solutions and some constants.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 P. G. Estévez , F. J. Herranz , J. de Lucas , C. Sardón

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

The Liouville equation is well known to be linearizable by a point transformation. It has an infinite dimensional Lie point symmetry algebra isomorphic to a direct sum of two Virasoro algebras. We show that it is not possible to discretize…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Decio Levi , Luigi Martina , Pavel Winternitz

We show that the recent results of \ [Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25 (2016) 1650051] on the application of Lie/Noether symmetries in scalar field cosmology are well-known in the literature while the problem could have been solved easily under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Spyros Basilakos , Michael Tsamparlis

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

A general approach is presented for quantizing a metric nonlinear system on a manifold of constant curvature. It makes use of a curvature dependent procedure which relies on determining Noether symmetries from the metric. The curvature of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Paul Bracken

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are at the heart of many mathematical and scientific advances. While great progress has been made on the theory of PDEs of standard types during the last eight decades, the analysis of nonlinear PDEs of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

We propose a new variational approach to finding multiple critical points for strongly indefinite problems without assuming the weak upper semicontinuity on the variational functionals. By this approach, we obtain the existence of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Long-Jiang Gu , Huan-Song Zhou

We perform the complete symmetry classification of the Klein-Gordon equation in maximal symmetric spacetimes. The central idea is to find all possible potential functions $V(t,x,y)$ that admit Lie and Noether symmetries. This is done by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Sameerah Jamal , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We consider the Noetherian symmetries of second-order ODEs subjected to forces with nonzero curl. Both position and velocity dependent forces are considered. In the former case the first integrals are shown to follow from the symmetries of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Ghose-Choudhury , Partha Guha , Andronikos Paliathanasis , P. G. L. Leach

In this paper, we prove the pointwise boundary differentiability for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. This generalizes the previous related results for linear equations. The geometrical conditions in this paper are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Duan Wu , Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

The classical quantization of a Lienard-type nonlinear oscillator is achieved by a quantization scheme (M.C. Nucci. Theor. Math. Phys., 168:997--1004, 2011) that preserves the Noether point symmetries of the underlying Lagrangian in order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 G. Gubbiotti , M. C. Nucci

We consider a variational problem with boundary singularity and Dirichlet condition. We give a blow-up analysis for sequences of solutions of an equation with exponential nonlinearity. Also, we derive a compactness criterion under some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Samy Skander Bahoura

We suggest the method for group classification of evolution equations admitting nonlocal symmetries which are associated with a given evolution equation possessing nontrivial Lie symmetry. We apply this method to second-order evolution…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-07-13 Renat Zhdanov

A symmetry classification is performed for a class of differential-difference equations depending on 9 parameters. A 6-parameter subclass of these equations is an integrable discretization of the Krichever-Novikov equation. The dimension…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2011-10-25 Decio Levi , Pavel Winternitz , Ravil I. Yamilov

We consider Noether symmetries within Hamiltonian setting as transformations that preserve Poincar\'e-Cartan form, i.e., as symmetries of characteristic line bundles of nondegenerate 1-forms. In the case when the Poincar\'e-Cartan form is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Bozidar Jovanovic