Invariant relationships deriving from classical scaling transformations

DOI10.1063/1.3576199zbMATH Open1316.85007arXiv1008.4086OpenAlexW3104894414MaRDI QIDQ5263569FDOQ5263569

Authors: Sidney Bludman, Dallas C. Kennedy 

Publication date: 17 July 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Because scaling symmetries of the Euler-Lagrange equations are generally not variational symmetries of the action, they do not lead to conservation laws. Instead, an extension of Noether's theorem reduces the equations of motion to evolutionary laws that prove useful, even if the transformations are not generalized symmetries of the equations of motion. In the case of scaling, symmetry leads to a scaling evolutionary law, a first-order equation in terms of scale invariants, linearly relating kinematic and dynamic degrees of freedom. This scaling evolutionary law appears in dynamical and in static systems. Applied to dynamical central-force systems, the scaling evolutionary equation leads to generalized virial laws, which linearly connect the kinetic and potential energies. Applied to barotropic hydrostatic spheres, the scaling evolutionary equation linearly connects the gravitational and internal energy densities. This implies well-known properties of polytropes, describing degenerate stars and chemically homogeneous non-degenerate stellar cores.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4086

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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