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Aug 31, 2023 at 13:45 comment added Buttonwood To quote the introduction of Wikipedia's List of character tables for chemically important 3D point groups: «...g and u subscripts denote symmetry and antisymmetry, respectively, with respect to a center of inversion. Subscripts "1" and "2" denote symmetry and antisymmetry, respectively, with respect to a nonprincipal rotation axis. Higher numbers denote additional representations with such asymmetry. ...»
Aug 31, 2023 at 13:40 comment added Rivinius Thanks! Which symmetry element did you refer to when you said "denote symmetry and antisymmetry"?
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Aug 31, 2023 at 12:37 history answered Buttonwood CC BY-SA 4.0