Unimodularly invariant forms and the Bravais lattices (Q807749): Difference between revisions

Bilinear invariant real forms are derived defining the metrical properties of the 3-dimensional crystallographic lattices left invariant by the 73 arithmetic point groups characterized according to the work by Auslander and Cook. This leads to the Bravais classes of such lattices, which are well known. The aim of the author is to make explicit the correspondence between the Auslander-Cook classification and the standard characterization of crystallographic point groups and of Bravais lattices one finds in the International tables for crystallography (Ed. Th. Hahn). Again nothing essentially new is added, from the mathematical point of view also, to what one already finds in the book by \textit{H. Brown}, \textit{R. Bülow}, \textit{J. Neubüser}, \textit{H. Wondratschek} and \textit{H. Zassenhaus} on ``Crystallographic groups of four-dimensional space'' (J. Wiley, 1978; Zbl 0381.20002), where the 3-dimensional case is also treated. The paper of Johnson has to be considered together with that of Auslander and Cook published in the same issue (see the preceding review Zbl 0731.20030).