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Fingerprints as Frozen Nematic Fields

2025-12-22

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1 Human fingerprints arise during embryogenesis and persist throughout life. While biochemical mechanisms of ridge initiation and growth are increasingly well understood, the physical principles governing ridge-pattern organisation remain unclear. Here, we show that fingerprint ridges can be treated as a frozen nematic field on a bounded surface, exhibiting long-range orientational order and singularities. Modelli...

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Literature Corpus work: c516d4af-e526-5144-b08a-779a13098642
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.19.695577

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