Dynamical symmetries in the fluctuation-driven regime: an application of Noether's theorem to noisy dynamical systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09761v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:56:31 GMT
• Title: Dynamical symmetries in the fluctuation-driven regime: an application of Noether's theorem to noisy dynamical systems
• Authors: John J. Vastola,
• Abstract summary: Nonequilibrium physics provides a variational principle that describes how fairly generic noisy dynamical systems are most likely to transition between two states.<n>We identify analogues of the conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum, and briefly discuss examples of each in the context of models of decision-making, recurrent neural networks, and diffusion generative models.
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• Abstract: Noether's theorem provides a powerful link between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities for systems governed by some variational principle. Perhaps unfortunately, most dynamical systems of interest in neuroscience and artificial intelligence cannot be described by any such principle. On the other hand, nonequilibrium physics provides a variational principle that describes how fairly generic noisy dynamical systems are most likely to transition between two states; in this work, we exploit this principle to apply Noether's theorem, and hence learn about how the continuous symmetries of dynamical systems constrain their most likely trajectories. We identify analogues of the conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum, and briefly discuss examples of each in the context of models of decision-making, recurrent neural networks, and diffusion generative models.

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