International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume B
Reciprocal space
Edited by U. Shmueli

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. B. ch. 1.4, p. 113

Table A1.4.2.6 

U. Shmueli,a* S. R. Hallb and R. W. Grosse-Kunstlevec

aSchool of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69 978 Tel Aviv, Israel, bCrystallography Centre, University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6907, WA, Australia, and  cLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Mailstop 4-230, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  ushmueli@post.tau.ac.il

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Rotation matrix for the body-diagonal axis

The symbol for the threefold rotation in the a + b + c direction is 3*. Note that for cubic space groups the body-diagonal axis is implied and the asterisk * may be omitted.

Axis Rotation Matrix
a + b + c 3* [\pmatrix{0&0&1\cr1&0&0\cr0&1&0\cr}]