New conservation laws obtained directly from symmetry action on a known conservation law (Q2497396)

The authors derive two formulae for obtaining new conservation laws from known ones through the action of contact transformation. The first formula shows how to use any contact transformation, including a discrete one, which maps a given system of partial differential equations to another system to directly obtain a conservation law of the second system from any known conservation law of the given system. Here the second formula allows one to check a priori whether or not an admitted contact symmetry transformation yields a new conservation law of the given system. Several examples of these formulae applications to nonlinear telegraph and cylindrical KdV equations are given.