Ambivalent class

Prove that the number of inequivalent, real vector IRs of a symmetry group G is equal to the number of ambivalent classes of G. Test this theorem by referring to character tables for the point groups D2, D3, and Th. [Hints The inverse class % of the class X - = R [ is the class R 1. An ambivalent class is one for which -k = X+ You will need to use the orthogonality of the rows and of the columns of the character table.]... 

E = 1, always. It often happens, as in S(3), that a class G, is the same as its inverse Y,j, in which case the class r- j = is said to be ambivalent. Any group G contains at least one ambivalent class, namely r- = E. Equation (6) shows that all three classes of S(3) are ambivalent. A class may be ambivalent because each element is equal to its inverse, gj1 = gj, V / 1,2,..., cj as is true for in S3. Or a class might be ambivalent with... 

Remark If we were to take in eq. (8) a linear combination of classes, instead of inverse classes, the slices of the 3-D array might, in general, occur in a different order and this would result in some loss of symmetry in the class constants for groups with non-ambivalent classes. 

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Remark The reader will no doubt have noticed that the above argument could be carried out equally well for the classes instead of for the inverse classes c- k. Why then have we used the seemingly more complicated route of expressing the RS of eq. (8) as a linear combination of inverse classes rather than as a linear combination of classes, as is done, for example, in the books by Hall (1959) and Jansen and Boon (1967) It is because the symmetry properties of the class constants defined by eq. (8) are more extensive than they would have been had the product linear combination of classes. Of course, each class has an inverse class and so the same terms will occur on the RS of eq. (8), but their ordering by the index k will differ unless all classes of G are ambivalent. 

A class Functional groups that exhibit ambivalent character (+ or -) ... 

This means that the permutation and its inverse are always in the same class. A group with this property is said to be an ambivalent group. 

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