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Point groups in three dimensions
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Bipyramide
En géométrie, un diamant ou bipyramide, ou encore dipyramide, est un polyèdre constitué de deux pyramides symétriques dont la même base forme un polygone régulier. L'ordre du diamant est l'ordre du polygone de la base. C'est aussi l'ordre du sommet de chaque pyramide. Il existe un unique diamant dans les polyèdres réguliers: l'octaèdre. Cependant, pour chaque ordre d'un diamant, il existe un diamant dont toutes les faces sont des triangles isocèles isométriques.
Indice d'un sous-groupe
En mathématiques, et plus précisément en théorie des groupes, si H est un sous-groupe d'un groupe G, l'indice du sous-groupe H dans G est le nombre de copies distinctes de H que l'on obtient en multipliant à gauche par un élément de G, soit le nombre des xH quand x parcourt G (on peut choisir en fait indifféremment de multiplier à gauche ou à droite). Les classes xH formant une partition, et la multiplication à gauche dans un groupe par un élément donné étant bijective, le produit de l'indice du sous-groupe H dans G par l'ordre de H égale l'ordre de G, ce dont on déduit, pour un groupe fini, le théorème de Lagrange.
Polyhedral group
In geometry, the polyhedral group is any of the symmetry groups of the Platonic solids. There are three polyhedral groups: The tetrahedral group of order 12, rotational symmetry group of the regular tetrahedron. It is isomorphic to A4. The conjugacy classes of T are: identity 4 × rotation by 120°, order 3, cw 4 × rotation by 120°, order 3, ccw 3 × rotation by 180°, order 2 The octahedral group of order 24, rotational symmetry group of the cube and the regular octahedron. It is isomorphic to S4.
Point groups in two dimensions
In geometry, a two-dimensional point group or rosette group is a group of geometric symmetries (isometries) that keep at least one point fixed in a plane. Every such group is a subgroup of the orthogonal group O(2), including O(2) itself. Its elements are rotations and reflections, and every such group containing only rotations is a subgroup of the special orthogonal group SO(2), including SO(2) itself. That group is isomorphic to R/Z and the first unitary group, U(1), a group also known as the circle group.
Binary octahedral group
In mathematics, the binary octahedral group, name as 2O or is a certain nonabelian group of order 48. It is an extension of the chiral octahedral group O or (2,3,4) of order 24 by a cyclic group of order 2, and is the of the octahedral group under the 2:1 covering homomorphism of the special orthogonal group by the spin group. It follows that the binary octahedral group is a discrete subgroup of Spin(3) of order 48.
Symétrie (transformation géométrique)
Une symétrie géométrique est une transformation géométrique involutive qui conserve le parallélisme. Parmi les symétries courantes, on peut citer la réflexion et la symétrie centrale. Une symétrie géométrique est un cas particulier de symétrie. Il existe plusieurs sortes de symétries dans le plan ou dans l’espace. Remarque : Le terme de symétrie possède aussi un autre sens en mathématiques. Dans l'expression groupe de symétrie, une symétrie désigne une isométrie quelconque.
Symmetry operation
In group theory, geometry, representation theory and molecular geometry, a symmetry operation is a geometric transformation of an object that leaves the object looking the same after it has been carried out. For example, as transformations of an object in space, rotations, reflections and inversions are all symmetry operations. Such symmetry operations are performed with respect to symmetry elements (for example, a point, line or plane).
Binary cyclic group
In mathematics, the binary cyclic group of the n-gon is the cyclic group of order 2n, , thought of as an extension of the cyclic group by a cyclic group of order 2. Coxeter writes the binary cyclic group with angle-brackets, ⟨n⟩, and the index 2 subgroup as (n) or [n]+. It is the binary polyhedral group corresponding to the cyclic group. In terms of binary polyhedral groups, the binary cyclic group is the preimage of the cyclic group of rotations () under the 2:1 covering homomorphism of the special orthogonal group by the spin group.
Cyclic symmetry in three dimensions
In three dimensional geometry, there are four infinite series of point groups in three dimensions (n≥1) with n-fold rotational or reflectional symmetry about one axis (by an angle of 360°/n) that does not change the object. They are the finite symmetry groups on a cone. For n = ∞ they correspond to four frieze groups. Schönflies notation is used. The terms horizontal (h) and vertical (v) imply the existence and direction of reflections with respect to a vertical axis of symmetry.
Projective orthogonal group
In projective geometry and linear algebra, the projective orthogonal group PO is the induced action of the orthogonal group of a quadratic space V = (V,Q) on the associated projective space P(V). Explicitly, the projective orthogonal group is the quotient group PO(V) = O(V)/ZO(V) = O(V)/{±I} where O(V) is the orthogonal group of (V) and ZO(V)={±I} is the subgroup of all orthogonal scalar transformations of V – these consist of the identity and reflection through the origin.