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The structure of reversing symmetry groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Michael Baake  and
John A.G. Roberts
Michael Baake
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/baake
John A.G. Roberts
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jagr
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We present some of the group theoretic properties of reversing symmetry groups, and classify their structure in simple cases that occur frequently in several well-known groups of dynamical systems.

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , June 2006 , pp. 445 - 459
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2006

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