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Noether's theorem relates constants of motion to the symmetries of the system. Here we investigate a manifestation of Noether's theorem in non-Hermitian systems, where the inner product is defined differently from quantum mechanics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Jose D. H. Rivero , Li Ge

The Noether symmetry issue for Horndeski Lagrangian has been studied. We have been proven a series of theorems about the form of Noether conserved charge (current) for irregular (not quadratic) dynamical systems. Special attentions have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

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

Noether's theorem, which connects continuous symmetries to exact conservation laws, remains one of the most fundamental principles in physics and dynamical systems. In this work, we draw a conceptual parallel between two paradigms: the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Tim Zolkin , Sergei Nagaitsev , Ivan Morozov , Sergei Kladov

A new variational principle - extremizing the fixed frame kinetic energy under constant relative enstrophy - for a coupled barotropic flow - rotating solid sphere system is introduced with the following consequences. In particular, angular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chjan C. Lim

Consider a homogenous fluid membrane, or vesicle, described by the Helfrich-Canham energy, quadratic in the mean curvature. When the membrane is axially symmetric, this energy can be viewed as an `action' describing the motion of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven , Efrain Rojas

We summarize here the first results obtained using a technique we recently developed for the Noether analysis of Hopf-algebra spacetime symmetries, including the derivation of conserved charges for field theories in noncommutative…

We present the hydrodynamics of fluids in three spatial dimensions with helical symmetry, wherein only a linear combination of a rotation and translation is conserved in one of the three directions. The hydrodynamic degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-29 Jack H. Farrell , Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

We propose a system of conservation laws with relaxation source terms (i.e. balance laws) for non-isothermal viscoelastic flows of Maxwell fluids. The system is an extension of the polyconvex elastodynamics of hyperelastic bodies using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Sébastien Boyaval , Mark Dostalík

We present a new model to identify natural fluctuations in fluids, allowing us to describe localization phenomena in the transport of electrons, positrons and positronium through non-polar fluids. The theory contains no free parameters and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 D. G. Cocks , R. D. White

We analyse the conservation laws in the gauge gravity theory which are derived for the general class of gravitational models with the action invariant under the local Poincare and the diffeomorphism group. The consistent Noether-Lagrange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Yuri N. Obukhov

The ideal CGL plasma equations, including the double adiabatic conservation laws for the parallel ($p_\parallel$) and perpendicular pressure ($p_\perp$), are investigated using a Lagrangian variational principle. An Euler-Poincar\'e…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 G. M. Webb , S. C. Anco , S. V. Meleshko , G. P. Zank

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 this work we investigate the helicity regularity for weak solutions of the incompressible Euler equations. To prove regularity and conservation of the helicity we will threat the velocity $u$ and its $curl\, u$ as two independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Luigi De Rosa

Quantum hydrodynamics represents quantum mechanics through two complementary models: the Eulerian picture, a direct transcription of wave mechanics, and the Lagrangian picture, in which the quantum state is represented by the collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Peter Holland

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

A brief summary of results on homotheties in General Relativity is given, including general information about space-times admitting an r-parameter group of homothetic transformations for r>2, as well as some specific results on perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Carot , A. M. Sintes

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

F(R) theory of gravity is claimed to admit a host of conserved currents under the imposition of Noether symmetry following various techniques. However, for a constrained system such as gravity, Noether symmetry is not on-shell. As a result,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Nayem Sk , Manas Chakrabortty , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

One of the most important conservation laws in atmospheric and oceanic science is conservation of potential vorticity. The original derivation is approximately a century old, in the work of Rossby and Ertel, and it is related to the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Parvathi Kooloth , Leslie M. Smith , Samuel N. Stechmann