Breaking embryo symmetry

Symmetry breaking cilia-driven flow in the zebrafish embryo

Fluid mechanics plays a vital role in early vertebrate embryo development, an example being the establishment of left-right asymmetry. Following the dorsal-ventral and anterior-posterior axes, the left-right axis is the last to be established; in several species it has been shown that an important process involved with this is the production of a left-right asymmetric flow driven by ‘whirling’ ...

Symmetry Breaking

Symmetry occurs in many problems in aritifical intelligence. For example, in the n-queens problem, the chessboard can be rotated 90◦. As a second example, several machines in a factory might have the same capacity. In a production schedule, we might therefore be able to swap the jobs on machines with the same capacity. As a third example, two people within a company might have the same skills. ...

Symmetry Breaking

Symmetry, Symmetry Breaking and Topology

The ground state of a system with symmetry can be described by a group G. This symmetry groupG can be discrete or continuous. Thus for a crystalG is a finite group while for the vacuum state of a grand unified theory G is a continuous Lie group. The ground state symmetry described by G can change spontaneously from G to one of its subgroups H as the external parameters of the system are modifie...

" Electroweak Symmetry Breaking through Supersymmetry Breaking "

The connection between the scales of SU(2) × U(1) gauge symmetry breaking and supersymmetry breaking is didactically displayed in the framework of a T.O.Y. (Theory Overestimating Yukawas) model, a version of the (M + 1)SSM (supersymmetric extension of the standard model with a gauge singlet) in which the relevant parameters are determined in the fixed point regime. Some conspicuous features of ...