Covariant Hamiltonian Representation of Noether’s Theorem and Its Application to SU(N) Gauge Theories

We present the derivation of the Yang-Mills gauge theory based on the covariant Hamiltonian representation of Noether’s theorem. As the starting point, we re-formulate our previous presentation of the canonical Hamiltonian derivation of Noether’s theorem (Struckmeier and Reichau, Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics, Springer, New York, p. 367, 2013, [1]). The formalism is then applied to derive the Yang-Mills gauge theory. The Noether currents of U(1) and SU(N) gauge theories are derived from the respective infinitesimal generating functions of the pertinent symmetry transformations which maintain the form of the respective Hamiltonian.