A summary on symmetries and conserved quantities of autonomous Hamiltonian systems (Q2220271)

The existence of symmetries of Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems is related to the existence of conserved quantities. As it is well known, the standard procedure to obtain conserved quantities consists in introducing the so-called Noether symmetries, and then use the Noether theorem. However, these kinds of symmetries do not exhaust the set of symmetries. As it is known, there are symmetries which are not of Noether type, but they also generate conserved quantities and they are sometimes called hidden symmetries. In this paper the author establishes a complete scheme of classification of all the different kinds of symmetries of Hamiltonian systems, explaining how to obtain the associated conserved quantities in each case. The author follows the same lines of argument as in the analysis made in [\textit{W. Sarlet} and \textit{F. Cantrijn}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 14, 479--492 (1981; Zbl 0464.58010)] for nonautonomous Lagrangian systems, where the authors obtained conserved quantities for different kinds of symmetries that do not leave the Poincaré-Cartan form invariant.