60.20 WyckoffPositionsQClass

WyckoffPositionsQClass( G, S )

For space groups with larger point groups, most of the time in the computation of Wyckoff positions (see Wyckoff Positions) is spent computing the subgroup lattice of the point group. If Wyckoff positions are needed for several space groups which are in the same Q class, and therefore have isomorphic point groups, one can avoid recomputing the same subgroup lattice for each of them as follows. For the computation of the Wyckoff positions of the first space group S one uses a call to WyckoffPositions. For the remaining space groups, S is then passed as a second argument to WyckoffPositionsQClass( G, S ), which uses some of the results already obtained for S.

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April 1997