A comment on conservation laws and constants of motion

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Foundations of Physics 12 (7):739-742 (1982)
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It is demonstrated with the help of an example that in general one cannot derive a constant of motion from a conservation law even if one assumes that the field under consideration and all its derivatives with respect to the space coordinates vanish rapidly as the space coordinates tend to infinity

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