Symmetry overview

The maintenance of a connection to experiment is essential in that reliability is only measurable against experimental results. However, in practice, the computational cost of the most reliable conventional quantum chemical methods has tended to preclude their application to the large, low-symmetry molecules which form liquid crystals. There have however, been several recent steps forward in this area and here we will review some of these newest developments in predictive computer simulation of intramolecular properties of liquid crystals. In the next section we begin with a brief overview of important molecular properties which are the focus of much current computational effort and highlight some specific examples of cases where the molecular electronic origin of macroscopic properties is well established. 

In this chapter, we have presented an overview of symmetry and its importance when applying molecular orbital methods to molecular structure. Although far from rigorous and complete, the principles... 

This volume of Topics in Stereochemistry could not be complete without hearing about ferroelectric liquid crystals, where chirality is the essential element behind the wide interest in this mesogenic state. In Chapter 8, Walba, a pioneering contributor to this area, provides a historical overview of the earlier key developments in this field and leads us to the discovery of the unique banana phases. This discussion is followed by a view of the most recent results, which involve, among others, the directed design of chiral ferroelectric banana phases, which display spontaneous polar symmetry breaking in a smectic liquid crystal. 

The discussion begins below with an overview of proposed energy dissipation mechanisms that lead to friction. This is followed by brief discussions of phenomenological friction laws that describe the dependence of friction upon normal load and sliding velocity. The dependence of friction on the symmetry of the surfaces that are in contact is discussed later. 

There are only three broad structural categories into which most of the reported oxide superconductors can be classified i.e., sodium chloride, perovskite, and spinel. It is interesting to note that these three structures possess cubic symmetry in their most idealized state. A detailed discussion of the research performed on oxide compounds derived from these three structures will be presented in Section 2.0 below. But before we continue with the general study of superconductivity in other materials, an overview of the oxide work is given in chronological fashion (to 1975) in the following Section. 

The present review is based mainly on our publications [33,35-39,49-53]. In Section II we give a detailed description of the general reduction routine for an arbitrary relativistically invariant systems of partial differential equations. The results of Section II are used in Section III to solve the problem of symmetry reduction of Yang-Mills equations (1) by subgroups of the Poincare group P 1,3) and to construct their exact (non-Abelian) solutions. In Section IV we review the techniques for nonclassical reductions of the STJ 2) Yang-Mills equations, which are based on their conditional symmetry. These techniques enable us to obtain the principally new classes of exact solutions of (1), which are not derivable within the framework of the standard symmetry reduction technique. In Section V we give an overview of the known invariant solutions of the Maxwell equations and construct multiparameter families of new ones. 

First, we give a brief overview of symmetry properties of Eqs. (99) following [48]. 

The presence of symmetry in a molecule can be used to great advantage in electronic structure calculations, although some care is required to avoid possible pitfalls that are simultaneously introduced (Appendix B provides a brief overview of nomenclature (e.g., the term irrep . 

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For the calculation of cofactors we use algorithms based on work by Lowdin [16], and Prosser and Hagstrom [25,26]. An overview of the theory of determinants, cofactors, adjugates and compound matrices can be found in a book by Aitken [17]. The symmetry and possible orthogonality in the orbital spaces give rise to a block-structure in the overlap matrices. This structure is exploited [22,27] to minimise the size of the matrices in the L-d-R decomposition, described below, an n3 process for each matrix. 

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