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The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 2007 60(2):73-84; doi:10.1093/qjmam/hbl020
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Q. Jl Mech. Appl. Math, Vol. 60. No. 2 © The author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Material symmetries versus wavefront symmetries

Andrej Bóna, Ioan Bucataru and Michael A. Slawinski

( Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University, St John's, Canada A1B 3X5 )

Received 2 January 2006. Revise 12 October 2006.
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We show that, in general, wavefronts are more symmetric than the medium in which they propagate. This means that we cannot determine the symmetries of the medium based solely on the symmetries of the wavefronts. However, we show that we can determine the symmetries of the medium from the symmetries of wavefronts and polarizations together.


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