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	Global-Local Gauge Symmetries of the Weak Force
		The global weak force "identity" charge symmetry consists of three subcategories, one each for the electron, muon, and tau (and perhaps a 4th for the leptoquark).
		The global symmetry state is expressed as the universal value of electric charge (e), whatever its origin or carrier.
		The soul (an abstract, virtual, or global form of identity) is hidden by the body (the local form) in life, but becomes explicit at death, and comprises the essential and eternal identity of the individual, which actually preexists and permits physical existence in the first place.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jag8/gauge13.html (4179 words)

	Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The extension of the concept of continuous symmetry from “global” symmetries (such as the Galilean group of spacetime transformations) to “local” symmetries is one of the important developments in the concept of symmetry in physics that took place in the twentieth century.
		Symmetries may be used to explain (i) the form of the laws, and (ii) the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of certain events (this latter in a manner analogous to the way in which the laws explain why certain events occur and not others).
		Another reason for attributing symmetries to nature is the so-called geometrical interpretation of spatiotemporal symmetries, according to which the spatiotemporal symmetries of physical laws are interpreted as symmetries of spacetime itself, the “geometrical structure” of the physical world.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/symmetry-breaking (9815 words)

	Global and Local Gauge Symmetries in the "Tetrahedron Model"
		Functionally, the local symmetries are expressed through charges and their associated forces, which act, on the one hand, to conserve the global symmetries in some alternative material form (charge), such that they can be held through time and eventually returned (via their associated forces) to their original form, light.
		The function of local gauge symmetry is to ensure charge invariance (serving charge and symmetry conservation) and the invariance of the "Interval" (serving causality and energy conservation) during and after the transformation (as in the "Big Bang") of light to matter.
		Global symmetry: G is a universal constant; all mass is equivalent in terms of gravitational charge, regardless of its elemental composition; all objects fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jag8/gauge11.html (5918 words)

	Matsuno (specific) - Use of Natural Languages in Modeling Evolutionary Processes
		Especially, as far as the ubiquity of the idea of symmetry is concerned, we cannot overemphasize the significance of the conceptual kinship between symmetric physical operations to be identified and the Cartesian separation as a methodology.
		The global symmetry latent in the conservation of energy turns out to be a consequence of the local act of each participatory agent for the sake of the global conservation of energy.
		Otherwise, the notion of symmetry to the Cartesian subject is merely derivative of the local act of participatory agents for the sake of the principle of invariance on a global scale.
	www.focusing.org /apm_papers/matsuno2.html (3434 words)

	Symmetry in physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Symmetry in physics refers to various features of a physical system that can be said to exhibit the property of symmetry —that is, under certain transformations, aspects of these systems are shown to or appear to "be unchanged," according to a particular observation.
		CP violation, the violation of the combination of C and P symmetry, is a currently fruitful area of particle physics research, as well as being necessary for the presence of significant amounts of matter in the universe and thus the existence of life.
		Also, the reduction by symmetry of the energy functional under the action by a group and spontaneous symmetry breaking of transformations of symmetric groups appear to elucidate topics in particle physics (for example, the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force in physical cosmology).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symmetry_in_physics (1908 words)

	Chapter 1.5
		This was usually achieved beginning from "local symmetry" - from the one fundamental region and regularly arranged neighboring fundamental regions, and resulting in the "global symmetry" - complete ornamental filling in of the plane.
		At first restricted to the maximal groups of symmetry generated by reflections, to the regular tessellations or Bravais lattices, the desymmetrization method in painting becomes in time, firstly thanks to the use of colors, an efficient procedure for deriving all symmetry groups as subgroups of wider groups.
		Under the term "desymmetrization" of certain symmetry group we understand this as the procedure beginning with the elimination of corresponding symmetries and resulting in the derivation of certain subgroup H of the given group.
	www.emis.de /monographs/jablan/chap15.htm (1652 words)

	My Research Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I am interested in the symmetry theory of differential equations, and in particular in the amount of topological information that is encoded in the universal enveloping algebra of the symmetry algebra of a given differential equation/exterior differential system/any object to which a Lie algebra has been associated geometrically.
		Very roughly, the symmetry group of an object is defined implicitly by requiring that the elements of the group preserve the object (in a sense that depends on the object in question).
		Second, the external symmetries are the symmetries of the pseudo-directed graph (without regard to the dynamics).
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Math/BrownCE/research.html (966 words)

	Global symmetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A global symmetry is a symmetry that holds for all points in the spacetime under consideration, as opposed to a local symmetry that only holds for an open subset of points.
		In quantum field theory, for example, a global symmetry is any symmetry of a model which is not a gauge symmetry.
		A gauge symmetry is a local symmetry which only allows us to predict the future evolution of a state given its current state up to a gauge transformation.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Global_symmetry (191 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We reviewed the observable consequences of symmetry that we have seen already in this course: local conservation laws for the generators of the symmetries; and degeneracies of the allowed energies (or particle masses).
		We also noted that these observable consequences correlate to required symmetries of the Lagrangian: having observed the consequences of a given symmetry, we can include in our Lagrangian only the interaction terms which are invariant (up to a total derivative) under that symmetry.
		We defined a gauged symmetry as one where the symmetry transformation --- or change of basis --- could be chosen independently at all points in spacetime, still without affecting the observed physics.
	www.emory.edu /PHYSICS/Faculty/Benson/380-96/notes/37.txt (609 words)

	The Reference Frame: Background independence
		Also, if someone says that the diffeomorphism symmetry is qualitatively different from Yang-Mills symmetry and its philosophical implications are different and more far-reaching, he or she shows the flawed opinion that the space and the degrees of freedom associated with it are special.
		Global symmetries are different (although they can arise as a subgroup of "large" transformations in the group of gauge symmetries).
		The possibilities for global symmetries are very limited in string theory because a global symmetry is typically extended into a local symmetry.
	motls.blogspot.com /2005/07/background-independence.html (8952 words)

	Quantum Overview/2
		A global phase shift does not alter the two-slit interference of electron waves (which usually have one light band in the centre), but a phase filter which locally shifts the phase through one slit has precisely the same effect as applying a magnetic field between the slits.
		In the case of electromagnetism this is the phase of the wave and in gravity it is the relativistic transformations of space-time.
		When the larger symmetry between the weak and electromagnetic forces is broken, by some of the particles gaining a non-zero rest mass, the two forces gain their distinctive character.
	www.dhushara.com /book/quantcos/quant1/quantsb.htm (3102 words)

	Global and local symmetry of the primary visual cortex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The transformations are a global retinotopic mapping into the supragranular layers and a tiling of the supragranular layers with multiple local versions of the hemi-retinal image.
		The first mapping is the classical retinotopic, global projection of the visual field to V1, and the second is a local mapping visual field inputs, multiple copies of which tile the supragranular layers of V1.
		This global mapping is assumed to occur through the interlaminar loops of connections which leave layer 4C and project to the infragranular layers and then back up to the supragranular layers (Miller, 1996).
	astronomy.swin.edu.au /~pbourke/papers/visualneuro (7061 words)

	WULFFMAN - CTCMS
		The Global Shape Window in Wulffman is used to spawn, close, or destroy all of the windows associated with each sub-shape.
		The action of each symmetry element on a point in three-dimensional space creates an equivalent point, i.e., one that is equivalent to the first under the given symmetry operations.
		A simplified representation of equivalent points or symmetry elements in three dimensions that involves projections of points on the surface of the sphere onto the equatorial plane of the sphere.
	www.ctcms.nist.gov /wulffman/docs_1.2 (4384 words)

	The role of symmetry in fundamental physics -- Gross 93 (25): 14256 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
		In relativistic quantum mechanics the implications of symmetry are greater.
		The secret of nature is symmetry, but much of the texture of the world is due to mechanisms of symmetry breaking.
		Associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking is the phenomenon of symmetry restoration.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/93/25/14256 (2997 words)

	Dolan-Jackiw paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They gave qualitative arguments to support this contention in a theory with global symmetry (not a gauge theory) and obtained an order-of-magnitude expression for the critical temperature in terms of the parameters of the theory.
		The restoration of a spontaneously broken symmetry above a critical temperature is a phenomenon whose aspects in field theory have been exhibited in this investigation.
		An interesting distinction emerges between symmetries broken dynamically and those broken explicitly by scalar fields: The former remain broken at high temperature, the latter can be restored.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~cwp/articles/Dolan-Jackiw/conclusion.html (596 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While, as this survey will show, he was ultimately incorrect about a global symmetry between matter and antimatter, it is still impressive how quickly he was able to grasp the implications of the positron.
		In fact, the evidence suggests that the symmetry breaking is maximal: the universe is made entirely of matter.
		In this vein we will briefly discuss the difficulties in constructing symmetric cosmologies as well as some work which has recently concluded that if the universe is divided into domains of matter and antimatter, the size of the domains must be on the order of the visible universe.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~morey/baryontalk/introduction.html (495 words)

	Abstract for cham_tr183
		The definition of local symmetries is extended to affine geometries by considering the tangents and curvatures of local structures, and a quantitative measure of local symmetry known as symmetricity is introduced, which is based on Mahalanobis distances from the tangent-curvature states of local structures to the local skewed symmetry state-subspace.
		In the implementation, a fast, local symmetry detection algorithm allows initial hypotheses for the symmetry axis to be generated through the use of a modified Hough transform.
		This produces useful estimates for the axis of symmetry and the angle of skew in the presence of contour fragmentation, artifacts and occlusion.
	svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk /reports/abstracts/cham_tr183.html (297 words)

	MODULARITY IN ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Using the theory of symmetry and its generalizations (simple and multiple antisymmetry, colored symmetry...) for certain structures it is possible to define exhaustive derivation algorithms, and even to obtain some combinatorial formula for their enumeration.
		Their symmetry is distinguished by P.Gerdes, discussing so-called mirror curves resulting from knot and link sand drawings from Lunda region (Eastern Angola and Northwestern Zambia) or Tamil designs.
		The approach to the ornamental art from the theory of symmetry point of view is almost completely taken from the mathematical crystallography, giving us the answer to the question: "which ornaments are derived", but not to the questions "how they are derived" (or why?).
	www.mi.sanu.ac.yu /~jablans/d3.htm (4109 words)

	Tim Healey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although the physics and hence the models in project (1) and (2) are distinct, the same mathematical approach is employed: We begin with a nominally homogeneous (spherical) state and seek global, meta-stable, symmetry-broken states under changing pressure.
		The potential importance of this tool stems from the fact that detailed linearized bifurcation analyses are possible (and well known) for a large class of incompressible problems, i.e., the necessary conditions for bifurcation are readily computable (not so for the analogous compressible problems).
		Global Bifurcation in Nonlinear Elasticity with an Application to Barrelling States of Cylindrical Columns (with E. Montes), J. Elasticity 71 (2003) 33-58.
	www.tam.cornell.edu /Healey.html (1407 words)

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		Symmetry Global centralized administration is achieved by a Global Client, which can connect to any site and log on as if it were a local client of that site.
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	Supersymmetry to the rescue? - 2
		Physicists Gervais and Sakita put the two pictures together into a theory described by a two-dimensional worldsheet action and noted that this action was invariant under a global (that is, independent of position) symmetry that transformed bosons into fermions and vice versa.
		The super-Virasoro algebra represents an extension of the worldsheet symmetry of the theory from conformal invariance to superconformal invariance.
		The biggest problem with bosonic string theory (aside from the lack of fermions) is that the lowest energy state was a tachyon, or a particle mode with negative mass squared.
	superstringtheory.com /experm/exper4a1.html (1222 words)

	two-time-physics
		The reason to be interested in such a local symmetry is that duality symmetries in M-theory and N=2 super Yang-Mills theory have similarities to gauge symplectic transformations, and their origin in the fundamental theories in physics remains a mystery.
		An important gauge invariant concept is the global symmetry of the two-time action, which must be shared by all the gauge fixed one-time dynamical systems.
		In the simple case, the symmetry has been shown to be present in the same irreducible representation in all the one-time dynamical systems derived from the same two-time action.
	physics.usc.edu /~bars/twoTph.htm (1281 words)

	Gauge theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In (quantum) physics, symmetry is a transformation between physical states that preserves the expectation values of all observables O (in particular the Hamiltonian).
		The definition of electrical ground in an electric circuit is an example of a gauge symmetry; when the electric potentials across all points in a circuit are raised by the same amount, the circuit would still operate identically; as the potential differences (voltages) in the circuit are unchanged.
		This is the global symmetry of this particular Lagrangian, and the symmetry group is often called the gauge group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gauge_symmetry (2861 words)

	Hamiltonian or Lagrangian or Both?
		This means that the spatial symmetry of the ball is broken globally.
		This is because of the formulation of the laws of nature in gr in a curved spacetime.
		It is not implicit in the laws of nature according to the theory of general relativity, since this is based on continuous symmetry alone.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=11560 (954 words)

	C Symmetry considerations
		The total angular momentum J (in field-free space), however, is a globally conserved quantum number; consequently states of different J are non-interacting.
		How the globally conserved symmetries are included into RM/TST is the subject of the present analysis.
		This does not necessarily imply that the corresponding CRP's are equal as the states in a given manifold access only the transition states labeled by the corresponding global symmetry of the manifold.
	web.chemistry.gatech.edu /rig/pubs/p1/node5.html (556 words)

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	Mailing List complex-science@necsi.org Message 7367
		[Edwina] Symmetry, understood as a continuous mode of organization, must be preserved, otherwise, the universe is reduced to only two morphological identities; the internal and the external.
		So- the universe 'had' to develop a system that would save its mode of morphological organization, such that whenever a kinetic interaction would release energy, it would thermodynamically be immediately 'snapped up' and transformed into a similar morphology.
		a cell symmetry is a coherent mix of zillions specific symmetries).
	necsi.org:8100 /lists/complex-science/Message/7367.html (428 words)

	LESSON 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SYMMETRY ALL AROUND US For each of the following pictures, examine the photo carefully and respond to the corresponding questions.
		This picture is an example of global symmetry (the entire photo) and local symmetry (each window).
		Explain the difference between the two and sketch an example of something with global symmetry but not local symmetry.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /~teach95/kt95/KTL1s3.html (142 words)

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