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The body of the tables contain the characters in the respective irreducible representations for each respective symmetry operation, or set of symmetry operations. The symbol i used in the body of the table denotes the imaginary unit: i 2 = −1. Used in a column heading, it denotes the operation of inversion.
The irreducible complex characters of a finite group form a character table which encodes much useful information about the group G in a concise form. Each row is labelled by an irreducible character and the entries in the row are the values of that character on any representative of the respective conjugacy class of G (because characters are class functions).
Robert Mulliken was the first to publish character tables in English (1933), and E. Bright Wilson used them in 1934 to predict the symmetry of vibrational normal modes. [13]. For this reason, the notation used to label irreps in the above table is called Mulliken notation and for asymmetric groups it consists of letters A and B with subscripts ...
The character table does not in general determine the group up to isomorphism: for example, the quaternion group Q and the dihedral group of 8 elements, D 4, have the same character table. Brauer asked whether the character table, together with the knowledge of how the powers of elements of its conjugacy classes are distributed, determines a ...
Let Γ be a finite subgroup of SO(3), the three-dimensional rotation group.There is a natural homomorphism f of SU(2) onto SO(3) which has kernel {±I}. [4] This double cover can be realised using the adjoint action of SU(2) on the Lie algebra of traceless 2-by-2 skew-adjoint matrices or using the action by conjugation of unit quaternions.
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In Hermann–Mauguin notation, space groups are named by a symbol combining the point group identifier with the uppercase letters describing the lattice type.Translations within the lattice in the form of screw axes and glide planes are also noted, giving a complete crystallographic space group.