Tuesday, November 22, 2016

conservation laws - Noether charge for Lagrangian with higher-order derivatives


I'm trying to find the Noether charge for the symmetry


xx+f(x)


This transformation should leave the action invariant, so


dS=S(x+f(x),)S(x)=0=dt L(x+f(x),˙x+˙f,,t)L(x,˙x,,t)


Using f(x+ϵ)f(x)ϵdfdx


dS=dt Lxf+L˙x˙f+L¨x¨f+

Writing the second term as a total derivative dS=dt Lxf+ddt[L˙xf]fddt(L˙x)+L¨x¨f+=L˙xf|T0+dt Lxffddt(L˙x)+L¨x¨f+
For the higher order terms we can do the same L¨x¨f=ddt(L¨x˙f)˙fddt(L¨x)=ddt(L¨x˙f)ddt(fddt(L¨x))+fd2dt2(Ld¨x)
So now the integral becomes dS=Nn=0Lx(n+1)f(n)|T0+dt f[Nn=0(1)ndndtn(Lx(n))]ddt(fddt(L¨x))+=0


Where the sum under the integral represents the Euler-Lagrange equations for the unperturbed action. I am kind of expecting the boxed terms to vanish as well, leaving only the first term. Did I do it right, what steps am I missing?





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