Lie superalgebras and the multiplet structure of the genetic code. I: Codon representations.

DOI10.1063/1.533417zbMATH Open1055.92035arXivmath-ph/9808001OpenAlexW2044668536MaRDI QIDQ2738121FDOQ2738121

Sebastian Sachse, Michael Forger

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been proposed that the degeneracy of the genetic code,i.e., the phenomenon that different codons (base triplets) of DNA are transcribed into the same amino acid, may be interpreted as the result of a symmetry breaking process. In the initial work of Hornos & Hornos this picture was developed in the framework of simple Lie algebras. Here, we explore the possibility of explaining the degeneracy of the genetic code using basic classical Lie superalgebras, whose representation theory is sufficiently well understood, at least as far as typical representations are concerned. In the present paper, we give the complete list of all typical codon representations (typical 64 -dimensional irreducible representations), whereas in the second part, we shall present the corresponding branching rules and discuss which of them reproduce the multiplet structure of the genetic code.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9808001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras (17B99)

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