The Local Theory for Regular Systems in the Context of t-Bonded Sets

The main goal of the local theory for crystals developed in the last quarter of the 20th Century by a geometry group of Delone (Delaunay) at the Steklov Mathematical Institute is to find and prove the correct statements rigorously explaining why the crystalline structure follows from the pair-wise i...

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Published in:Symmetry (Basel) 2018-05, Vol.10 (5), p.159
Main Authors: Bouniaev, Mikhail, Dolbilin, Nikolay
Format: Article
Language:English
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Atomic structure
Euclidean geometry
Euclidean space
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Summary:The main goal of the local theory for crystals developed in the last quarter of the 20th Century by a geometry group of Delone (Delaunay) at the Steklov Mathematical Institute is to find and prove the correct statements rigorously explaining why the crystalline structure follows from the pair-wise identity of local arrangements around each atom. Originally, the local theory for regular and multiregular systems was developed with the assumption that all point sets under consideration are ( r , R ) -systems or, in other words, Delone sets of type ( r , R ) in d-dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper, we will review the recent results of the local theory for a wider class of point sets compared with the Delone sets. We call them t-bonded sets. This theory, in particular, might provide new insight into the case for which the atomic structure of matter is a Delone set of a “microporous” character, i.e., a set that contains relatively large cavities free from points of the set.
ISSN:2073-8994
2073-8994
DOI:10.3390/sym10050159