International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume A1
Symmetry relations between space groups
Edited by Hans Wondratschek and Ulrich Müller

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. A1. ch. 3.1, pp. 428-433   | 1 | 2 |
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000547

Chapter 3.1. Guide to the tables

Ulrich Müllera*

a Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
Correspondence e-mail: mueller@chemie.uni-marburg.de

Footnotes

1 If the sum of two square numbers is a prime number p, then it is [p= 2] or [p=4n+1], and every prime number of this type can be expressed as such a sum. Index number restrictions of this kind occur among isomorphic subgroups of certain tetragonal space groups. A similar relation occurring among trigonal and hexagonal space groups concerns prime numbers [p=q^2-qr+r^2]; [p=3] or [p=6n+1] always holds for integer q, r and every prime number [p=6n+1] can be expressed by such a sum. For details, see Müller & Brelle (1995[link]).