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Symmetry, Volume 15, Issue 9

September 2023 - 188 articles

Cover Story: We review the recent trends on inflationary dynamics in the context of viable modified gravity theories. After providing a general overview of the inflationary paradigm emphasizing what problems of hot Big Bang theory inflation solves, and a somewhat introductory presentation of single field inflationary theories with minimal and non-minimal couplings, we review how inflation can be realized in terms of several string motivated models of inflation, which involve Gauss–Bonnet couplings of the scalar field, higher order derivatives of the scalar field and some subclasses of viable Horndeski theories, which are ingredients of most mainstream modified gravity theories. View this paper
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Articles (188)

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,220 Views
53 Pages

21 September 2023

We review several variants of three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED3) with Nf fermion (or boson) flavors, including fermionic (or spinorial) QED3, bosonic (or scalar) QED3, N=1 supersymmetric QED and also models of reduced QED (supersymmetri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,514 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2023

In this study, we first generalize the Lorentzian inner and vector products, and then we define the generalized split quaternions by means of the generalized Lorentzian inner and vector products. Next, on any hyperboloid of one or two sheets, which i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,855 Views
29 Pages

21 September 2023

Following the discovery of an artificial protein cage with a paradoxical geometry, we extend the concept of homogeneous symmetric congruent equivalent near-miss polyhedral cages, for which all the faces are equivalent, and define bi-homogeneous symme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,905 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2023

Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are a newly emerged class of porous materials consisting of organic building blocks linked by strong covalent bonds. The physical and chemical properties of COFs, i.e., modularity, porosity, well-developed specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,400 Views
13 Pages

Decay Law of Supercritical CO2 Phase Transition-Induced Shock Waves in Rocky Media

  • Jie Zhang,
  • Qifu Zeng,
  • Fangqiang Wei,
  • Lu Liu,
  • Fayou Wu and
  • Haotian Li

21 September 2023

Supercritical CO2 phase change fracturing technology has been widely used in rock engineering, with the advantages of low disturbance and no pollution. However, the phase change shock wave inevitably affects the surrounding environment, and the influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,687 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Plasma Oxygen Content on the Size and Content of Silicon Nanoclusters in Amorphous SiOx Films Obtained with Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

  • Vladimir A. Terekhov,
  • Evgeniy I. Terukov,
  • Yurii K. Undalov,
  • Konstantin A. Barkov,
  • Nikolay A. Kurilo,
  • Sergey A. Ivkov,
  • Dmitry N. Nesterov,
  • Pavel V. Seredin,
  • Dmitry L. Goloshchapov and
  • Dmitriy A. Minakov
  • + 3 authors

21 September 2023

The influence of Ar + SiH4 + O2 plasma formulation on the phase composition and optical properties of amorphous SiOx films with silicon nanoclusters obtained using PECVD with DC discharge modulation was studied. Using a unique technique of ultrasoft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,845 Views
17 Pages

21 September 2023

Differentiated production and supply chain management (SCM) areas benefit from the IoT, Big Data, and the data-management capabilities of the AI paradigm. Many businesses have wondered how the arrival of AI will affect planning, organization, optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,559 Views
10 Pages

21 September 2023

Let G(R) be the unit graph associated with a ring R. Let p be a prime number and let R be a finite ring of order p or p2 and be one of the rings Zp,Zp2,GF(p2),Zp(+)Zp or Zp×Zp. We determine the geodetic number g(G(R)) associated with each such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,613 Views
14 Pages

High-Field Nonresonant Response of Zundel Cations to Intense Terahertz Radiation

  • Kaicheng Wang,
  • Lianghao Guo,
  • Qin Zhang,
  • Hui Ning,
  • Chang Lu,
  • Shaomeng Wang and
  • Yubin Gong

20 September 2023

The fundamental unit for comprehending the physicochemical properties of water, the Zundel cation configuration H5O2+, has yet to be exhaustively evaluated in terms of its interaction with terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves, characterized by sub-p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,852 Views
20 Pages

20 September 2023

This paper discusses some properties of complex-valued fuzzy metric spaces and introduces the α-admissible mappings in the setting of complex-valued fuzzy metric spaces. We establish fixed point theorems for mappings satisfying symmetric contra...

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