A summary on symmetries and conserved quantities of autonomous Hamiltonian systems

Abstract

A complete geometric classification of symmetries of autonomous Hamiltonian systems is established; explaining how to obtain their associated conserved quantities in all cases. In particular, first we review well-known results and properties about the symmetries of the Hamiltonian and of the symplectic form and then some new kinds of non-symplectic symmetries and their conserved quantities are introduced and studied.

I acknowledge the financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Econom´ıa y Competitividad project MTM2014–54855–P, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci´on y Universidades project PGC2018-098265-BC33, and the Secretary of University and Research of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Catalan Government project 2017–SGR–932. I also greatly appreciate the comments and suggestions of Prof. Mikhail S. Plyushchay. Finally, my thanks to the referees for their extensive and valuable comments that have allowed me to significantly improve the final version of the work.

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