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<font color="blue">Module vectoriel</font> (''Fr''). <font color="red">Vektormodul</font> (''Ge''). <font color="black">Modulo vettoriale</font> (''It'').
  
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More generally, the Bragg peaks of an ''m''-dimensional aperiodic crystal structure
 
More generally, the Bragg peaks of an ''m''-dimensional aperiodic crystal structure
 
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belong to a vector module of rank ''n'', larger than ''m''. To indicate that this module
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[[Category:Fundamental crystallography]]
 
[[Category:Fundamental crystallography]]

Latest revision as of 14:42, 20 November 2017

Synonyms: Z-module, Fourier module


Module vectoriel (Fr). Vektormodul (Ge). Modulo vettoriale (It).


Definition

A vector module is the set of vectors spanned by a number n of basis vectors with integer coefficients. The basis vectors should be independent over the integers, which means that any linear combination [math]\sum_i m_i a_i[/math] with mi integers is equal to zero if, and only if, all coefficients mi are zero. The term Z-module is sometimes used to underline the condition that the coefficients are integers. The number of basis vectors is the rank of the vector module.

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An n-dimensional lattice in an n-dimensional vector space is an example of a vector module, with rank n. In reciprocal space, the reciprocal lattice corresponding to a crystallographic structure is a special case of a vector module. The Bragg peaks for the crystal fall on the positions of the reciprocal lattice. More generally, the Bragg peaks of an m-dimensional aperiodic crystal structure belong to a vector module of rank n, larger than m. To indicate that this module exists in reciprocal space, it is sometimes called the Fourier module.