Published February 28, 2015 | Version v1
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Point Symmetries of Lagrangians

  • 1. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico DF
  • 2. ESFM-IPN, Mexico DF
  • 3. UAM-A, Mexico DF

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We give an elementary exposition of a method to obtain the infinitesimal point symmetries of Lagrangians. Besides, we exhibit the Lanczos approach to Noether’s theorem to construct the first integral associated with each symmetry. 

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