International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume A
Space-group symmetry
Edited by Th. Hahn

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. A. ch. 4.1, p. 57

Table 4.1.2.1 

E. F. Bertauta

a Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Table 4.1.2.1 | top | pdf |
Location of additional symmetry element, if the translation vector t is perpendicular to the symmetry axis along [0,0,z] or to the symmetry plane in [x,y,0]

The symmetry centre at 0, 0, 0 is included. The table is restricted to integral translations (for centring translations, see Table 4.1.2.3[link]). The symbol ↺ indicates cyclic permutation.

Symmetry element at the origin Translation vector t Location of additional symmetry element Representative plane and space groups (numbers)
[2,2_{1}] 1, 0, 0 [{1 \over 2},0,z] [P2\;(3), P2_{1}\;(4), p2\;(2)]
0, 1, 0 [0,{1 \over 2},z]  
1, 1, 0 [{1 \over 2},{1 \over 2},z]  
[3,3_{1},3_{2}] 1, 0, 0 [{2 \over 3},{1 \over 3},z] [P3\;(143)\hbox{--}P3_{2}\;(145), p3\;(13)]
1, 1, 0 [{1 \over 3},{2 \over 3},z]  
[4,4_{1},4_{2},4_{3}] 1, 0, 0 [{1 \over 2},{1 \over 2},z] [P4\;(75)\hbox{--}P4_{3}\ (78), p4(10)]
[6,6_{1},6_{2},6_{3},6_{4},6_{5}] [P6\;(168)\hbox{--}P6_{5}\;(173), p6\;(16)]
m, a, b, n, d, e 0, 0, 1 [x,y,{1 \over 2}] [Pm\ (6), Pa, Pb, Pn\ (7), Fddd\ (70), Cmme \ (67)]
[\bar{1}] 1, 0, 0 ↺ [{1 \over 2},0,0] [P\bar{1}] (2)
1, 1, 0 ↺ [{1 \over 2},{1 \over 2},0]
1, 1, 1 [{1 \over 2},{1 \over 2},{1 \over 2}]
[\bar{3}] [P\bar{3}] (147)
[\bar{4}] 0, 1, 0 [{1 \over 2}, {1 \over 2}, z] [P\bar{4}] (81)
[\bar{6}] 0, 1, 0 [{1 \over 3}, {2 \over 3}, z] [P\bar{6}] (174)
1, 1, 0 [{2 \over 3}, {1 \over 3}, z]