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Noether's theorem gives you conservation laws from continuous global symmetries, like those you've noted. Under certain conditions this can be extended to discr
by hither_shores 5y ago
Noether's theorem gives you conservation laws from continuous global symmetries, like those you've noted. Under certain conditions this can be extended to discretized global symmetries (as in, for instance, a crystal lattice) but there's no analogue for the true discrete symmetries exhibited by most body plans.