• important discrete symmetries are P-symmetry (parity) and T-symmetry (time reversal). These discrete symmetries, C, P and T, are symmetries of the equations...
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  • and time reversal symmetry is a fundamental symmetry of physical laws under the simultaneous transformations of charge conjugation (C), parity transformation...
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    CP violation (redirect from CP symmetry)
    CP-symmetry (or charge conjugation parity symmetry): the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugation symmetry) and P-symmetry (parity symmetry). CP-symmetry...
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    Symmetry (from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría) 'agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement') in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious...
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    The symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system (observed or intrinsic) that is preserved or remains unchanged under...
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    Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state spontaneously ends up in an...
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    Facial symmetry is one specific measure of bodily symmetry. Along with traits such as averageness and youthfulness, it influences judgments of aesthetic...
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    Gauge theory (redirect from Gauge symmetry)
    global symmetry. Local symmetry, the cornerstone of gauge theories, is a stronger constraint. In fact, a global symmetry is just a local symmetry whose...
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  • preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands for the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugation symmetry) and P-symmetry (parity symmetry). According...
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  • Parity (physics) (redirect from P-symmetry)
    such as rho meson decay to pions. C-symmetry CP violation Electroweak theory Mirror matter Molecular symmetry T-symmetry Footnotes An example of a mass flow...
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    molecular symmetry describes the symmetry present in molecules and the classification of these molecules according to their symmetry. Molecular symmetry is a...
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  • In mathematics, a symmetry operation is a geometric transformation of an object that leaves the object looking the same after it has been carried out....
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    left and right are swapped (P symmetry) and particles are replaced with their corresponding antiparticles (C symmetry). "Beauty" and "truth" are contrasted...
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    of the designs' superficial details; whereas C has a different set of symmetries. The number of symmetry groups depends on the number of dimensions in...
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    include a symmetry factor ni!. However, in the end each contribution of a Feynman diagram Dk to the partition function has the generic form ∏ i C i n i n...
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    conditions" are: Baryon number B {\displaystyle B} violation. C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation. Interactions out of thermal equilibrium. Baryon number...
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    set comes from the Poincaré symmetry—JPC, where J, P and C stand for the total angular momentum, P-symmetry, and C-symmetry, respectively. The other set...
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    In physics, symmetry breaking is a phenomenon where a disordered but symmetric state collapses into an ordered, but less symmetric state. This collapse...
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    conditions" are: Baryon number B {\displaystyle B} violation. C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation. Interactions out of thermal equilibrium. Baryon number...
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    Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. External symmetry can be easily seen...
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  • believed to be a molecular structure of P21/c symmetry; Phase III is (or is similar to) a structure of C2/c symmetry consisting of flat layers of molecules...
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    has icosahedral symmetry if it has the same symmetries as a regular icosahedron. Examples of other polyhedra with icosahedral symmetry include the regular...
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    regular octahedron has 24 rotational (or orientation-preserving) symmetries, and 48 symmetries altogether. These include transformations that combine a reflection...
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    original O(N) global symmetry is no longer manifest, leaving only the subgroup O(N − 1). The larger symmetry before spontaneous symmetry breaking is said...
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    operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and...
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    functions in quantum field theory. It is also important in spontaneous symmetry breaking. Examples are: The Higgs field has a vacuum expectation value...
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    Symmetries in quantum mechanics describe features of spacetime and particles which are unchanged under some transformation, in the context of quantum mechanics...
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    the result of quarks' interactions to form composite particles (gauge symmetry SU(3)). The neutrons and protons in the atomic nuclei are baryons – the...
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  • C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry is a book by mathematician Doris Schattschneider published by W. H. Freeman in 1990. The book analyzes the symmetry of...
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    In mathematics, a dihedral group is the group of symmetries of a regular polygon, which includes rotations and reflections. Dihedral groups are among the...
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