Symmetry and Complexity 2019
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 44450
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wavelets; fractals; fractional and stochastic equations; numerical and computational methods; mathematical physics; nonlinear systems; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry and complexity are two fundamental features of almost all phenomena in nature and science. Any complex physical model is characterized by the existence of some symmetry groups at different scales. On the other hand, breaking the symmetry of a scientific model has always been considered as the most challenging direction for new discoveries. Modelling complexity has recently become an increasingly popular subject, with an impressive growth in applications. The main goal of modelling complexity is to search for hidden or broken symmetries.
Usually, complexity is modelled by dealing with Big Data or dynamical systems, depending on a large number of parameters. Nonlinear dynamical systems and chaotic dynamical systems are also used for modelling complexity. Complex models are often represented by un-smooth objects, non-differentiable objects, fractals, pseudo-random phenomena, and stochastic process.
The discovery of complexity and symmetry in mathematics, physics, engineering, economics, biology, and medicine have opened new challenging fields of research. Therefore, new mathematical tools have been developed in order to obtain quantitative information from models, newly reformulated in terms of nonlinear differential equations.
This Special Issue focuses on the most recent advances in calculus, applied to dynamical problems, linear and nonlinear (fractional, stochastic) ordinary and partial differential equations, integral differential equations, and stochastic integral problems, arising in all fields of science, engineering applications, and other applied fields dealing with complexity.
We are soliciting contributions covering a broad range of topics on symmetry and complexity in:
- mathematics
- chemistry
- physics
- fluid dynamics and aerodynamics
- unified physical theory
- biology
- nonlinear dynamical systems
- nonlinear science
- engineering application
- chaos
- fractals
- image and data analysis
- computational systems
- artificial intelligence, neural networks
- history of science, philosophy, semantic structures
Prof. Dr. Carlo Cattani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mathematics
- physics
- mathematical physics
- mechanics
- fractal
- differential equations
- dynamical systems
- chaos
- computational methods
- stochastic process
- stochastic differential equations
- pattern recognition
- data analysis
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