By Christopher Bradley,Arthur Cracknell

This ebook provides the whole thought of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic element teams and house teams. this is often very important within the quantum-mechanical examine of a particle or quasi-particle in a molecule or crystalline strong as the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a approach belong to the irreducible representations of the gang of symmetry operations of that procedure. the speculation is utilized to offer whole tables of those representations for
all the 32 aspect teams and 230 area teams, together with the double-valued representations. For the distance teams, the gang of the symmetry operations of the okay vector and its irreducible representations are given for all of the distinct issues of symmetry, traces of symmetry and planes of symmetry in the
Brillouin quarter. purposes happen within the digital band constitution, phonon dispersion kin and choice principles for particle-quasiparticle interactions in solids. the speculation is prolonged to the corepresentations of the Shubnikov (black and white) element teams and area groups.

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