Self-adjointness and conservation laws of difference equations

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2014.11.003MaRDI QIDQ727084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Linyu Peng

Publication date 6 December 2016

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4947

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsNoether's theoremsymmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12)

Abstract: A general theorem on conservation laws for arbitrary difference equations is proved. The theorem is based on an introduction of an adjoint system related with a given difference system, and it does not require the existence of a difference Lagrangian. It is proved that the system, combined by the original system and its adjoint system, is governed by a variational principle, which inherits all symmetries of the original system. Noether's theorem can then be applied. With some special techniques, e.g. self-adjointness properties, this allows us to obtain conservation laws for difference equations, which are not necessary governed by Lagrangian formalisms.

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