Abstract
The problem of the correspondence between symmetries and conservation laws for partial differential equations is considered. For Lagrangian systems the set of Noether (variational) symmetries can be shown to lead to the set of all local conservation laws. For partial differential equations without well-defined Lagrangian functions there is no universal correspondence between symmetries and conservation laws. In this article it is shown that for a large class of differential equations there is a natural way to associate conservation laws with symmetries. The class consists of many interesting equations, e.g., Korteweg–de Vries equation, Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, Boussinesq equation, nonlinear diffusion equation, Monge–Ampère equation, regularized long-wave equation, and Navier–Stokes equations. Characteristics of the corresponding conservation laws are calculated and examples are given. For Lagrangian systems the consistency of the approach with the standard Noether results is discussed.
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