Mathematics – Rings and Algebras
Scientific paper
2010-10-19
Mathematics
Rings and Algebras
29 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
In this work, a theory of color symmetry is presented that extends the ideas of traditional theories of color symmetry for periodic crystals to apply to non-periodic crystals. The color symmetries are associated to each of the crystalline sites and may correspond to different chemical species, various orientations of magnetic moments and colorings of a non-periodic tiling. In particular, we study the color symmetries of periodic and non-periodic structures via Bravais colorings of planar modules that emerge as the ring of integers in cyclotomic fields with class number one. Using an approach involving matrices, we arrive at necessary and sufficient conditions for determining the color symmetry groups and color fixing groups of the Bravais colorings associated with the modules M_n = Z[exp(2{\pi}i/n)], and list the findings for M_{15} = Z[exp(2{\pi}i/15)] and M_{16} = Z[exp({\pi}i/8)]. In the second part of the paper, we discuss magnetic point groups of crystal and quasicrystal structures and give some examples of structures whose magnetic point group symmetries are described by Bravais colorings of planar modules.
Bugarin Enrico Paolo C.
Las Peñas Louise Antonette N. de Ma.
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