Latent symmetry and its group theoretical determination.
Latent symmetry of a component of a composite object is defined as that symmetry of a subunit of the component which is not a symmetry of the component but which is a symmetry of the composite. This is illustrated by a geometrical example. A group theoretical procedure is given to determine latent symmetry and is applied to examples.
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Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Berks Campus, PO Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA. u3c@psu.edu
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