A classification of the symmetries of uniform discrete defective crystals

DOI10.1007/S10659-014-9470-9MaRDI QIDQ481888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rachel Nicks

Publication date 18 December 2014

Published in Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0324, http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36153/

zbMATH Keywords

crystals defects Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20) Texture in solid mechanics (74E25)

Abstract: Crystals which have a uniform distribution of defects are endowed with a Lie group description which allows one to construct an associated discrete structure. These structures are in fact the discrete subgroups of the ambient Lie group. The geometrical symmetries of these structures can be computed in terms of the changes of generators of the discrete subgroup which preserve the discrete set of points. Here a classification of the symmetries for the discrete subgroups of a particular class of three-dimensional solvable Lie group is presented. It is a fact that there are only three mathematically distinct types of Lie groups which model uniform defective crystals, and the calculations given here complete the discussion of the symmetries of the corresponding discrete structures. We show that those symmetries corresponding to automorphisms of the discrete subgroups extend uniquely to symmetries of the ambient Lie group and we regard these symmetries as (restrictions of) elastic deformations of the continuous defective crystal. Other symmetries of the discrete structures are classified as `inelastic' symmetries.

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