11 questions linked to/from Definition of Local Function
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### Why are infinite order Lagrangians called 'non-local'?

And in what sense are they 'non-local'?
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### Deriving the Lagrangian for a free particle

I'm a newbie in physics. Sorry, if the following questions are dumb. I began reading "Mechanics" by Landau and Lifshitz recently and hit a few roadblocks right away. Proving that a free ...
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### Noether Theorem and Energy conservation in classical mechanics

I have a problem deriving the conservation of energy from time translation invariance. The invariance of the Lagrangian under infinitesimal time displacements $t \rightarrow t' = t + \epsilon$ can be ...
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### How to understand locality and non-locality in Quantum Mechanics?

What actually is the definition of locality and non-locality? Does non-locality in Quantum Mechanics mean however far you separate 2 entangled atoms in space, the 2 atoms can still influence each ...
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### What is meant by a local Lagrangian density?

What is meant by a local Lagrangian density? How will a non-local Lagrangian look like? What is the problem that we do not consider such Lagrangian densities?
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### How to tell local and non-local in QFT?

I'm taking QFT course in this term. I'm quite curious that in QFT by which part of the mathematical expression can we tell a quantity or a theory is local or non-local?
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### How does the functional measure transform under a field redefinition?

My question is: how does the path integral functional measure transform under the following field redefinitions (where $c$ is an arbitrary constant and $\phi$ is a scalar field): \begin{align} \phi(x)&...
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### Is the change in the Lagrangian always a total derivative for symmetry transformations of the action?

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ and consider an arbitrary functional $$S\colon C^k(\Omega)\to\mathbb R$$ that is local, $$\phi\overset S\mapsto \int_\Omega L(\phi,D\phi,\dots,D^k\phi)$$ for $L$ ...