A geometric model for non-uniform processes of morphogenesis

Abstract

In this paper we present an application of the groupoid theory to the study of relevant case of material evolution phenomena, the \textit{process of morphogenesis}. Our theory is inspired by Walter Noll's theories of continuous distributions and provides a unifying and very simple framework of these phenomena. We present the explicit equation, the \textit{morphogenesis equation}, to calculate the \textit{material distributions} associated to this phenomenon.