Connections Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws

This paper presents recent work on connections between symmetries and conservation laws. After reviewing Noether's theorem and its limitations, we present the Direct Construction Method to show how to find directly the conservation laws for any given system of differential equations. This metho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George Bluman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2005-10-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2005/Paper011/