Chirality and symmetry measures: a transdisciplinary review. (English) Zbl 1078.00503
Summary: Many quantitative measures of the degree of chirality or symmetry of a set have been proposed in the literature. The main approaches from various areas are reviewed: chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer sciences, biology, and psychophysics. Relations between chirality, symmetry, and other concepts such as similarity, disorder and entropy, are discussed.
MSC:
00A79 | Physics |
60E05 | Probability distributions: general theory |
62H05 | Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas |
92E10 | Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) |