Field theories based on Finsler space
(Symmetries with Finsler metric)

Guest Editor: György Darvas, PhD,
Director, Symmetrion.
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Finsler geometries treat spaces whose curvature, and accordingly metric, depend not only on their location (Riemann geometry), but also on directions assigned to each spatial point.

Physical fields often depend on vector quantities that are directed. Physics describes nature in permanent change. Physical nature can be characterised by quantities, which change both their place and their direction in every moment. Many phenomena call for a description in a direction depending reference frame.

Physics establishes laws that represent constancy in the continuously changing world. These laws are based on more or less stable physical principles. Fruition of symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles of physics. It embodies constancy in the change.
Symmetry means that while certain properties are changing, at least one other is conserved.
Derivation of conservation in field theories comply in most cases with the 2nd Noether theorem.

We are inviting papers to this thematic issue of Symmetry: Culture and Science that discuss physical phenomena and their associated conserved quantities with metric to be described in Finsler spaces.

Papers with a subject meeting the above criteria, and with at least two of the keywords: Finsler metric, fields, symmetry, conservation are welcome.

Expected length of papers: 8-20 printed pages each.

Deadline for submitting: 15 October 2012

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Symmetries in Genetics and Algebraic Biology

Guest Editor: Sergey Petoukhov, PhD, Head of Laboratory of Biomechanical Systems,
Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
101990, Malyi Kharitonievskiy pereulok, 4, Moscow, Russia
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Study of symmetries is one of the effective methods of cognition of a complex natural system. Modern science knows that deep knowledge about phenomenological relations of symmetry among separate parts of a complex natural system can tell much important things about the evolution and mechanisms of the system. Molecular genetics has discovered that all organisms are identical to each other by their basic genetic structures. Due to this revolutionary discovery, a great unification of all biological organisms took place in science, and information-genetic line of investigations became one of the most perspective lines not only in biology, but also in science as a whole. Modern information technologies are based on deep algebraic and symmetrical methods which can be useful to study biological systems and their hidden symmetries.

We are inviting papers to this thematic issue of Symmetry: Culture and Science that are devoted to symmetrologic and algebraic methods in studying genetics and inherited physiological systems.

Expected length of papers: 8-20 printed pages each.

Deadline for submitting: 15 September 2012
Deadline for acceptance/rejection: 15 November 2012

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