The vibrational modes of simplicial molecules
Abstract
Consider a "simplicial molecule": n equal point masses placed at the vertices of a regular (n-1)-simplex, connected by n 2 identical springs. We apply the representation theory of the symmetric group Sn to compute its vibrational modes.
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