Higher-dimensional point groups in superspace crystallography.
Crystallographic puzzles not covered by the present crystallography, like integral indexing and crystallographic scaling of axial-symmetric biomacromolecules and icosahedral viral capsids and/or integral lattices, can possibly be explained by extending (n,d)-dimensional superspace crystallography to include finite subgroups of the higher-dimensional orthogonal group O(n) and not only those of O(d), as restricted by the physical dimension d.
Janner
A
A
Theoretical Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. a.janner@science.ru.nl
D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry*; D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical