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Since we are concerned with the one-dimensional case only, "divergence" here is equivalent to a total 't'-derivative. In particular, then, if c5I=JEd't"-JLd't'=J~~ dr, 3 Studies in the Foundations, Vol. 4 (4) P. ] =Li(bx'-v'b'C), .. v'-L b'C-~bx'+C d'C av' vV' (5) where summation over i is understood. It should be noted that the statement of the theorem concerns the expressions (5), which are a direct consequence of the invariance (up to a divergence) of (1) under (3), and not any conservation laws; such laws only follow from (5) if the Euler-Langrange equations (6) are satisfied.
5, 433 (1960); see also P. HAVAS, Ref. [8]. 27. , WIGNER, E. : Phys. Rev. 138, B 1576 (1965); 142, 838 (1966). 28. For the case of Coulomb's law this will be discussed elsewhere. 29. Approximately relativistic Lagrangeans (with correction terms up to order Ije 2 ) are discussed by P. HAVAS and J. STACHEL (Ref. [19]), by H. WOODCOCK, Temple University Thesis, 1971, and in several papers in preparation by these authors. 30. : Phys. Rev. 95,1057 (1954). 31. For Fokker's principle in electrodynamics (Ref.
Problems of the NEUMANN or mixed types will not be invariant since the boundary data will change if A depends on {qJ A}' If, indeed, all problems of physical interest are problems of DIRICHLET type, then all is well and good. 1) of class C" in xm for all values of the parameters {A"'} (oc = 1, ... 2) where the r-tuple of vectors v:(x m ) (oc = 1, ... , r) are the infinitesimal generators of the transformations T(A). =0, the equations of transformation for such quantities give (see [6], pp. 4) D q>A(X)=V: Okq>A(X)- £ q>A(X) Vee Va and £ denotes the process of Lie differentiation [1].