Applications of group cohomology to the classification of quasicrystal symmetries

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/40/005zbMATH Open1116.20304arXivmath-ph/0105010OpenAlexW2159998601MaRDI QIDQ4458130FDOQ4458130

Authors: Benji Fisher, David A. Rabson 

Publication date: 17 March 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1962, Bienenstock and Ewald described the classification of crystalline space groups algebraically in the dual, or Fourier, space. Recently, the method has been applied to quasicrystals and modulated crystals. This paper phrases Bienenstock and Ewald's definitions in terms of group cohomology. A extit{Fourier quasicrystal} is defined, along with its space group, without requiring that it come from a quasicrystal in real (direct) space. A certain cohomology group classifies the space groups associated to a given point group and quasilattice, and the dual homology group gives all gauge invariants. This duality is exploited to prove several results that were previously known only in special cases, including the classification of space groups for quasilattices of arbitrary rank in two dimensions. Extinctions in X-ray diffraction patterns and degeneracy of electronic levels are interpreted as physical manifestations of non-zero homology classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0105010

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zbMATH Keywords

latticescohomology groupsquasicrystalsspace groupspoint groupscrystallographic space groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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