nLab wallpaper group

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Definition

A wallpaper group is a crystallographic group (space group) in dimension 2, hence a subgroup GIso( 2)G \subset Iso(\mathbb{R}^2) of the isometry group of the Euclidean plane such that

  1. the part of GG inside the translation group is generated by two linearly independent vectors;

  2. the point group is finite.

Fig. 3.10 in Tilley 2020:

References

See also

Discussion of meromorphic functions on the complex plane invariant under wallpaper groups:

  • Richard Chapling, Invariant Meromorphic Functions on the Wallpaper Groups (arXiv:1608.05677)

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