Variational symmetries as the existence of ignorable coordinates
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⚛️ physics.gen-ph
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coordinatesexistenceignorablevariationalconfigurationdegreesequivalentextended
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It is shown that given a Lagrangian for a system with a finite number of degrees of freedom, the existence of a variational symmetry is equivalent to the existence of coordinates in the extended configuration space such that one of the coordinates is ignorable.
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