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Real basis functions of polyhedral groups

Group Theory 2016-11-22 v1

Abstract

The basis of the identity representation of a polyhedral group is able to describe functions with symmetries of a platonic solid, i.e., 3-D objects which geometrically obey the cubic symmetries. However, to describe the dynamic of assembles of heterogeneous 3-D structures, a situation that each object lacks the symmetries but obeys the symmetries on a level of statistics, the basis of all representations of a group is required. While those 3-D objects are often transformed to real functions on L2L_2 space, it is desirable to generate a complete basis on real space. This paper deduces the existence of a basis on real space for each polyhedral group, and introduces a novel approach to explicitly compute these real basis functions, of which properties are further explored.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06472,
  title  = {Real basis functions of polyhedral groups},
  author = {Nan Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06472},
  year   = {2016}
}
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