Discrete field theory: symmetries and conservation laws

DOI10.1007/S11040-023-09459-4MaRDI QIDQ6096045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 11 September 2023

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04788

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawconserved discrete energy-momentum tensordiscrete differential geometrydiscrete LagrangianNoether theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

Abstract: We present a general algorithm constructing a discretization of a classical field theory from a Lagrangian. We prove a new discrete Noether theorem relating symmetries to conservation laws and an energy conservation theorem not based on any symmetry. This gives exact conservation laws for several theories, e.g., lattice electrodynamics and gauge theory. In particular, we construct a conserved discrete energy-momentum tensor, approximating the continuum one at least for free fields. The theory is stated in topological terms, such as coboundary and products of cochains.

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