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Colour symmetry in crystallographic space groups

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The feasibility of applying the restricted permutation representation method of Macdonald and Street to colouring the fundamental regions of 3-dimensional crystallographic groups is discussed. The tetragonal crystal class is used to illustrate a classification of colourings.

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D. A. Holton Jennifer Seberry

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Hubbard, R. (1978). Colour symmetry in crystallographic space groups. In: Holton, D.A., Seberry, J. (eds) Combinatorial Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062531

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