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Noether's theorem states that every continuous symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law.This is the first of two theorems (see Noether's second theorem) published by mathematician Emmy Noether in 1918. [1]
Being Lagrangian symmetries, gauge symmetries of a Lagrangian satisfy Noether's first theorem, but the corresponding conserved current takes a particular superpotential form = + where the first term vanishes on solutions of the Euler–Lagrange equations and the second one is a boundary term, where is called a superpotential.
[1] [2] [3] In classical mechanics for instance, in the action formulation, extremal solutions to the variational principle are on shell and the Euler–Lagrange equations give the on-shell equations. Noether's theorem regarding differentiable symmetries of physical action and conservation laws is another on-shell theorem.
No wandering domain theorem (ergodic theory) Noether's theorem (Lie groups, calculus of variations, differential invariants, physics) Noether's second theorem (calculus of variations, physics) Noether's theorem on rationality for surfaces (algebraic surfaces) Non-squeezing theorem (symplectic geometry) Norton's theorem (electrical networks)
Her work on differential invariants in the calculus of variations, Noether's theorem, has been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics". [11] In the second epoch (1920–1926), she began work that "changed the face of [abstract] algebra". [12]
According to Noether's theorem, each symmetry of a system is associated a conserved quantity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example, the rotational invariance of a system implies the conservation of its angular momentum , or spacetime invariance implies the conservation of energy–momentum.
The appellation of charge comes from the notion of charges in physics, which correspond to the generators of physical symmetries (via Noether's theorem). The perceived symmetry is that multiplication by a single Grassmann variable swaps the Z 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{2}} grading between fermions and bosons; this is discussed in greater ...
An application of the second isomorphism theorem identifies projective linear groups: for example, the group on the complex projective line starts with setting = (), the group of invertible 2 × 2 complex matrices, = (), the subgroup of determinant 1 matrices, and the normal subgroup of scalar matrices = {():}, we have = {}, where is ...