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- Title
Conserved quantities in discrete dynamics: what can be recovered from Noether's theorem, how, and why?
- Authors
Capobianco, Silvio; Toffoli, Tommaso
- Abstract
The connections between symmetries and conserved quantities of a dynamical system brought to light by Noether's theorem depend in an essential way on the symplectic nature of the underlying kinematics. In the discrete dynamics realm, a rather suggestive analogy for this structure is offered by second-order cellular automata. We ask to what extent the latter systems may enjoy properties analogous to those conferred, for continuous systems, by Noether's theorem. For definiteness, as a second-order cellular automaton we use the Ising spin model with both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic bonds. We show that-and why-energy not only acts as a generator of the dynamics for this family of systems, but is also conserved when the dynamics is time-invariant. We then begin to explore the issue of whether, in these systems, it may hold as well that translation invariance entails momentum conservation.
- Subjects
NOETHER'S theorem; MATHEMATICAL symmetry; MATHEMATICS theorems; PARALLEL processing; SEQUENTIAL machine theory
- Publication
Natural Computing, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p565
- ISSN
1567-7818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11047-012-9336-7