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Left symmetric algebras from DNA insertion

Rings and Algebras 2025-12-09 v3

Abstract

DNA recombination is a fundamental biological process that encodes genetic information for organism development and function. In this study, we construct the left symmetric algebras arising from the operation of DNA insertion. We define a new operation of insertion by modifying the simplified insertion xy:=f(x, y)i=0qy1y2yixyi+1yq,x\Rightarrow y:=f(\mid x\mid,\ \mid y \mid)\sum\limits_{i=0}^{q} y_{1}y_{2}\cdots y_{i} x y_{i+1}\cdots y_{q}, where x=x1x2xpx = x_{1}x_{2}\cdots x_{p}, y=y1y2yqy = y_{1}y_{2}\cdots y_{q}, and x,y\mid x\mid, \mid y\mid denote the lengths of xx and yy, respectively. We prove that the algebra F(R)\mathbb{F}(R) (over a field F\mathbb{F} of characteristic 00, with RR being an infinite free semigroup generated by DNA nucleotides {A,G,C,T}\{A, G, C, T\}) forms a left symmetric algebra if and only if the function ff satisfies the condition f(m,n)f(m+n,p)=f(n,p)f(m,n+p)=f(m,p)f(n,m+p),f(m, n) f(m+n, p)=f(n, p) f(m, n+p)= f(m, p) f(n, m+p), where m,n,pNm, n, p\in \mathbb{N}. A key example of such a function is f(m,n)=exp{g(m,n)}f(m, n)=\exp\{g(m, n)\}, where g(m,n)=kmn,g(m, n)=k\cdot mn, and kk is a fixed positive number, which effectively models length-dependent DNA insertion dynamics. This work enriches the theory of non-associative algebras and provides a mathematical framework for quantitative analysis of DNA recombination processes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.03837,
  title  = {Left symmetric algebras from DNA insertion},
  author = {Chen Yuan and Zhixiang Wu and Jing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03837},
  year   = {2025}
}
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