Conservation Laws of Fractional Classical Fields

This paper presents a formulation of Noether’s theorem for fractional classical fields. We extend the variational formulations for fractional discrete systems to fractional field systems. By applying the variational principle to a fractional action S, we obtain the fractional Euler–Lagrange equations of motion. Considerations of the Noether’s variational problem for discrete systems whose action is invariant under gauge transformations will be extended to fractional variational problems for classical fields. The conservation laws associated with fractional classical fields are derived. As an example we present the conservation laws for the fractional Dirac fields. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature India Private Limited.