Noether-like theorems for causal variational principles

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-0966-YzbMATH Open1337.49076arXiv1506.09076OpenAlexW3106382159MaRDI QIDQ283564FDOQ283564

Authors: Johannes Kleiner, Felix Finster 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The connection between symmetries and conservation laws as made by Noether's theorem is extended to the context of causal variational principles and causal fermion systems. Different notions of continuous symmetries are introduced. It is proven that these symmetries give rise to corresponding conserved quantities, expressed in terms of so-called surface layer integrals. In a suitable limiting case, the Noether-like theorems for causal fermion systems reproduce charge conservation and the conservation of energy and momentum in Minkowski space. Thus the conservation of charge and energy-momentum are found to be special cases of general conservation laws which are intrinsic to causal fermion systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.09076

Recommendations

• A class of conserved surface layer integrals for causal variational principles
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4055124
• Noether’s theorem in symmetric stochastic calculus of variations
• Noether symmetries and covariant conservation laws in classical, relativistic and quantum physics
• Do symmetries `explain' conservation laws? The modern converse Noether theorem vs pragmatism

zbMATH Keywords

causal fermion systemscausal variational principlesNoether-like theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Optimality conditions for problems involving relations other than differential equations (49K21) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Currents and the energy-momentum tensor in classical field theory: A fresh look at an old problem.
• On the support of minimizers of causal variational principles
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Causal Fermion Systems: An Overview
• Noether-like theorems for causal variational principles
• Entanglement and second quantization in the framework of the fermionic projector
• Causal variational principles on measure spaces
• On the regularized fermionic projector of the vacuum
• A Lorentzian quantum geometry
• Perturbative quantum field theory in the framework of the fermionic projector
• Perturbative description of the fermionic projector: normalization, causality, and Furry's theorem
• The principle of the fermionic projector.
• On the structure of minimizers of causal variational principles in the non-compact and equivariant settings
• An action principle for the masses of Dirac particles
• The continuum limit of causal fermion systems. From Planck scale structures to macroscopic physics

Cited In (14)

• A class of conserved surface layer integrals for causal variational principles
• A mechanism of baryogenesis for causal fermion systems
• Fermionic Fock spaces and quantum states for causal fermion systems
• The causal action in Minkowski space and surface layer integrals
• A mechanism for dark matter and dark energy in the theory of causal fermion systems
• Noether-like theorems for causal variational principles
• A Hamiltonian formulation of causal variational principles
• The linear dynamics of wave functions in causal fermion systems
• Causal fermion systems as an effective collapse theory
• Spinors on Singular Spaces and the Topology of Causal Fermion Systems
• Positive functionals induced by minimizers of causal variational principles
• Formulation of Noether’s theorem for Fokker-type variational principles
• A notion of entropy for causal fermion systems
• Causal variational principles on measure spaces

This page was built for publication: Noether-like theorems for causal variational principles

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q283564)