2-Adic numbers in genetics and Rumer's symmetry

A team of researchers conducted a study to propose an alternative approach to investigating genetics in mathematical physics. Their alternative approach consisted in considering a p-adic parameterization of the genetic code where the code was a locally constant mapping of a p-adic argument. The p-adic approach investigated the local constancy of mappings instead of the symmetry group. Variations of the genetic code violated its symmetry, but weakly affect the local constancy of the corresponding mapping. The study also investigated the division of the 2-adic plane of codons into the domains of strong and weak genetic code degeneration that were related to Rumer's symmetry.