page_title: Coxeter notation
section_title: Icosahedral symmetry
hierarchical_section_title: Coxeter notation / Computation with reflection matrices as symmetry generators / Rank 3 / Icosahedral symmetry
context_page_description: In geometry, Coxeter notation is a system of classifying symmetry groups, describing the angles between fundamental reflections of a Coxeter group in a bracketed notation expressing the structure of a Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with modifiers to indicate certain subgroups. The notation is named after H. S. M. Coxeter, and has been more comprehensively defined by Norman Johnson.
context_section_description: A final irreducible 3-dimensional finite reflective group is icosahedral symmetry, [5,3], order 120, . The reflection generators matrices are R₀, R₁, R₂. R₀²=R₁²=R₂²=(R₀×R₁)⁵=(R₁×R₂)³=(R₀×R₂)²=Identity. [5,3]⁺ () is generated by 2 of 3 rotations: S0,1, S1,2, and S0,2. A 10-fold rotoreflection is generated by V0,1,2, the product of all 3 reflections.
caption: Reflection lines for [5,3] =
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