SYMMETRY GENERALIZATION OF THE EULER-SCHLAFLI THEOREM FOR MULTISHELL POLYHEDRA

The point-group representations spanned by the vertices, edge vectors, face circulations and cell centres of a wide variety of multi-shelled polyhedral structures are related in a simple equation that generalis es the well known Euler and Schlafli theorems. The new theorem can be expected to have applications in spectroscopic and electronic structur e theory of a large class of clusters and coordination polyhedra.