title: On physical property tensors invariant under line groups.
abstract: The form of physical property tensors of a quasi-one-dimensional material such as a nanotube or a polymer can be determined from the point group of its symmetry group, one of an infinite number of line groups. Such forms are calculated using a method based on the use of trigonometric summations. With this method, it is shown that materials invariant under infinite subsets of line groups have physical property tensors of the same form. For line group types of a family of line groups characterized by an index n and a physical property tensor of rank m, the form of the tensor for all line group types indexed with n > m is the same, leaving only a finite number of tensor forms to be determined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Berks, PO Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Litvin
keywords: line groups; physical properties; quasi-one-dimensional materials