Continuous symmetry
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continuous-symmetry-271-6943536
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Continuous symmetry
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In mathematics, continuous symmetry is an intuitive idea corresponding to the concept of viewing some symmetries as motions, as opposed to discrete symmetry, e.g. reflection symmetry, which is invariant under a kind of flip from one state to another. However, a discrete symmetry can always be reinterpreted as a subset of some higher-dimensional continuous symmetry, e.g. reflection of a 2-dimensional object in 3-dimensional space can be achieved by continuously rotating that object 180 degrees ac
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Symmetry-based invariance to continuous group action
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_symmetry
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2024-01-28T05:38:31Z
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