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Tables for Crystallography Volume A Space-group symmetry Edited by Th. Hahn © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. A. ch. 15.3, p. 900
Section 15.3.1. Introduction
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Institut für Mineralogie, Petrologie und Kristallographie, Philipps-Universität, D-35032 Marburg, Germany |
The Euclidean and the affine normalizers of a space group form the appropriate tool to define equivalence relationships on sets of objects that are not symmetrically equivalent in this space group but `play the same role' with respect to this group. Two such objects referring to the same space group will be called Euclidean- or affine-equivalent if there exists a Euclidean or affine mapping that maps the two objects onto one another and, in addition, maps the space group onto itself.