61 questions linked to/from Invariance of Lagrangian in Noether's theorem
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### Conserved quantity of a relativistic free Lagrangian for a Lorentz boost

Let $$L~=~-mc^2\sqrt{1- \frac{|\textbf{v}|^2}{c^2} },$$ where $\textbf{v}$ is the usual velocity of the particle in a fixed inertial frame. Then, this is the Lagrangian for a relativistic free ...
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### Galilean invariance of Lagrangian for non-relativistic free point particle?

In QFT, the Lagrangian density is explicitly constructed to be Lorentz-invariant from the beginning. However the Lagrangian $$L = \frac{1}{2} mv^2$$ for a non-relativistic free point particle is ...
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### What is the definition of a symmetry of an action?

Symmetries of Lagrangians The definition of a symmetry of a theory is quite clear at the level of a Lagrangian. We say a Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}(\phi,\partial_\mu \phi)$ is symmetric under the ...
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### Noether charge of local symmetries

If our Lagrangian is invariant under a local symmetry, then, by simply restricting our local symmetry to the case in which the transformation is constant over space-time, we obtain a global symmetry, ...
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### Do total derivatives have anything to do with central extensions?

I recently got interested in the Galilean group and its central extension and found a paper "Quantization on a Lie group: Higher-order Polarizations" by Aldaya, Guerrero and Marmo. Before asking my ...
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### In what sense are the equations of motion conserved by symmetries?

I am studying variational principles and I have been reading this set of notes by Townsend. In the first paragraph of Section 9, Townsend defines what it means for a transformation to be a symmetry of ...
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### Symmetry modulo total derivative term in Noether's Theorem

I came across the proof of Noether's Theorem in David Tong's notes (page 14) on QFT. He writes something like, We say that the transformation $$\delta\phi(x) = \chi (\phi) \tag{1.34}$$ is a ...
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### Why is an action built from superfields guaranteed to be supersymmetric?

Given a superfield (in 0+1 spacetime + 2 superspace coordinates) $$X(t,\theta_1,\theta_2) = x(t) + \theta_i \psi_i(t) + \theta_1 \theta_2 F_{12}(t)\tag{1}$$ and given the standard supercharges ...
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### What's the name of the symmetry $L \to L + \frac{d \Lambda}{dt}$?

In the Lagrangian formulation of Classical Mechanics, we have the freedom to add a total time derivative of an arbitrary function $\Lambda$ to the Lagrangian: $$L \to L + \frac{d \Lambda}{dt} .$$ ...
I have read in my book that if $\frac{\partial L}{\partial t}=0$, then the quantity $L-\frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot{q}} \dot{q}$ is conserved, and we call it the energy of the system. But if ...