On the number of facets of three-dimensional Dirichlet stereohedra. I: Groups with reflections (Q5944938)
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On the number of facets of three-dimensional Dirichlet stereohedra. I: Groups with reflections (English)
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10 February 2002
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The authors study Dirichlet stereohedra for three-dimensional crystallographic groups containing reflections. They start with the intersections of the Voronoi regions for the crystallographic groups. A Dirichlet stereohedron for a crystallographic group is the Voronoi region of any point with trivial stabilizer in the Voronoi diagram of its orbit. The main result in the paper is the calculation of the exact maximum number of facets of a three-dimensional Dirichlet stereohedron corresponding to a group with reflections. The authors prove that for any three-dimensional crystallographic group with reflections in three, two or only one independent direction, the Dirichlet stereohedron has at most eight, eighteen and fifteen facets, respectively. They also give examples in which the upper bounds of 8, 18 and 15 facets are attained.
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three-dimensional crystallographic groups
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reflections
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Dirichlet stereohedra
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Voronoi regions
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maximum number of facets
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