Noether's Second Theorem on natural bundles (Q2929942)

In the 1980s, Anderson pointed out how the Noether Theorems can be directly formulated with the equations -- provided they are locally variational -- without explicitly mentioning the variational principle. As concerns to the Second Theorem, he proved it in some particularly important situations, including those of equations on the bundle of metrics, or the product of the bundle of metrics by a bundle of tensors. In the present paper, the authors use these ideas to present a formulation of Noether's Second Theorem that is valid on any natural bundle.