Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's theorem for differential-difference equations

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12168zbMATH Open1386.37064arXiv1607.00752OpenAlexW3123974214MaRDI QIDQ4588949FDOQ4588949

Authors: Linyu Peng 

Publication date: 6 November 2017

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper mainly contributes to the extension of Noether's theorem to differential-difference equations. For that purpose, we first investigate the prolongation formula for continuous symmetries, which makes a characteristic representation possible. The relations of symmetries, conservation laws and the Fr'echet derivative are also investigated. For non-variational equations, since Noether's theorem is now available, the self-adjointness method is adapted to the computation of conservation laws for differential-difference equations. A couple of differential-difference equations are investigated as illustrative examples, including the Toda lattice and semi-discretisations of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In particular, the Volterra equation is taken as a running example.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00752

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zbMATH Keywords

Noether's theoremdifferential-difference equationnonvariational equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12)

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