Reduction of Space Groups to Subgroups by Homogeneous Strain

J Res Natl Bur Stand A Phys Chem. 1963 Sep-Oct;67A(5):395-401. doi: 10.6028/jres.067A.042. Epub 1963 Oct 1.

Abstract

It is assumed that the symmetry elements possessed by a strained crystal will be those common to the unstrained crystal and to the macroscopic state of strain. This principle has been applied to show all of the possible subgroups to which a given space group can be lowered by homogeneous strain for all of the 230 crystallographic space groups.