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The investigation of atoms, molecules and crystals involves the analysis of their symmetry groups: full orthogonal groups for atoms, point symmetry groups for molecules, and space groups for crystals. All these groups are subgroups of the same continuous group: the Euclidean group. In the following sections we give, briefly, the most important information about these groups. Special attention is paid to site symmetry of physical systems related to the subgroups of a symmetry group.
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Evarestov, R.A., Smirnov, V.P. (1993). Symmetry Groups and Their Representations. In: Site Symmetry in Crystals. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97442-7_3
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