Geometry of Crystallographic Groups
Geometry of Crystallographic Groups

Author: Andrzej Szczepański

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9814412252

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Crystallographic groups are groups which act in a nice way and via isometries on some n-dimensional Euclidean space. This book gives an example of the torsion free crystallographic group with a trivial center and a trivial outer automorphism group.

Lectures On Symmetry-assisted Computation
Lectures On Symmetry-assisted Computation

Author: Danilo Pescia

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2023-11-29

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 9811280134

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Scientific problems have an internal 'beauty', called, referred to, precisely speaking, as their 'symmetry'. The symmetry arises, often, from the fact that the scientific problem refers to an object (a molecule, a crystal) and the object itself has some 'symmetry' elements, but in more abstract situations, such as those arising in particle physics and quantum technologies, symmetry is often the only known (and relevant!) fact about the problem. The scope of these Lecture Notes is to educate how to recognize the symmetry of a scientific problem and how to use symmetry to understand, manipulate and, finally, solve it. The principle guiding these Lecture Notes is that 'learning by doing' is the only way that young students can later become productive in science, business and industry. The lecture Notes have, essentially, two components. The first one reports the content of a set of lectures, held at ETH Zurich at the master and PhD level, frequented mainly by students from the department of Physics, Chemistry and Material Science. The lectures were accompanied by a set of student projects on various scientific subjects related to symmetry. These projects ended with a manuscript, worked out by the students themselves and edited into the second component of these Lecture Notes.

Groups and Manifolds
Groups and Manifolds

Author: Pietro Giuseppe Fré

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 3110551209

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Groups and Manifolds is an introductory, yet a complete self-contained course on mathematics of symmetry: group theory and differential geometry of symmetric spaces, with a variety of examples for physicists, touching briefly also on super-symmetric field theories. The core of the course is focused on the construction of simple Lie algebras, emphasizing the double interpretation of the ADE classification as applied to finite rotation groups and to simply laced simple Lie algebras. Unique features of this book are the full-fledged treatment of the exceptional Lie algebras and a rich collection of MATHEMATICA Notebooks implementing various group theoretical constructions.

Representation of Crystallographic Space Groups
Representation of Crystallographic Space Groups

Author: Kovalev

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1993-12-08

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9782881249341

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This new edition of Kovalev's renowned text (first English edition, 1965) presents all the irreducible representations (IRs) and irreducible corepresentations (ICRs) for the 230 crystallographic space groups. In order to give readers the opportunity of representing generally the entire crystallographic symmetry, the method of inducing an IR of the local groups is presented first, and then complete lists of induced representations (InRs) which allow the calculation of the microstructure of any crystal (already known or not yet discovered, but geometrically not forbidden) in any physical question. For research students and researchers in theoretical aspects of solid state physics, crystallography, and space group theory. Translated from the second Russian edition of 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lectures on Buildings
Lectures on Buildings

Author: Mark Ronan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0226724999

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In mathematics, “buildings” are geometric structures that represent groups of Lie type over an arbitrary field. This concept is critical to physicists and mathematicians working in discrete mathematics, simple groups, and algebraic group theory, to name just a few areas. Almost twenty years after its original publication, Mark Ronan’s Lectures on Buildings remains one of the best introductory texts on the subject. A thorough, concise introduction to mathematical buildings, it contains problem sets and an excellent bibliography that will prove invaluable to students new to the field. Lectures on Buildings will find a grateful audience among those doing research or teaching courses on Lie-type groups, on finite groups, or on discrete groups. “Ronan’s account of the classification of affine buildings [is] both interesting and stimulating, and his book is highly recommended to those who already have some knowledge and enthusiasm for the theory of buildings.”—Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

Isotropy Subgroups Of The 230 Crystallographic Space Groups
Isotropy Subgroups Of The 230 Crystallographic Space Groups

Author: Dorian M Hatch

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 9814522392

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This book gives a rather exhaustive list of isotropy subgroups of the 230 crystallographic space groups. The symmetry changes for the vast majority of observed phase transitions in crystalline solids can be found in the list. With each entry, information is given concerning both physical and abstract characteristics of the phase transitions.