A discrete symmetry of a preference relation is a mapping from the domain of choice to itself under which preference comparisons are invariant; a continuous symmetry is a one-parameter family of such transformations that includes the identity; and a symmetry field is a vector field whose...

The aim of this paper is to define consumer's preferences from the differentiable viewpoint in the sense of Debreu. In this framework given the marginal rates of substitution we can consider a vector field to represent consumer's preferences in the microeconomic theory. By definition the...