Can anything from noether's theorem be salvaged for discrete dynamical systems?

Authors:
Silvio Capobianco;Tommaso Toffoli
Affiliations:
Inst. of Cybernetics at TUT, Tallinn, Estonia;ECE Dept., Boston Univ., Boston, MA
Venue:
UC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Unconventional computation
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The dynamics of a physical system is linked to its phasespace geometry by Noether's theorem, which holds under standard hypotheses including continuity. Does an analogous theorem hold for discrete systems? As a testbed, we take 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.