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Symmetry 2012, 4, 537-544; doi:10.3390/sym4030537 OPEN ACCESS symmetry ISSN 2073-8994 /journal/symmetry Article A Higher Dimensional Description of the Structure of β-Mn Sven Lidin 1,* and Daniel Fredrickson 2 1 CAS, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, Lund 22100, Sweden 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706,USA; E-Mail: danny@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: sven.lidin@polymat.lth.se; Tel.: +46-727-291-030; Fax: +46-46-222-8209. Received: 3 July 2012; in revised form: 22 August 2012 / Accepted: 22 August 2012 / Published: 27 August 2012 Abstract: The structure of β-Mn crystallizes in space group P4 32. The pseudo 8-fold 1 nature of the 4 axes makes it constitute an approximant to the octagonal quasicrystals. In 1 this paper we analyze why a five-dimensional super space group containing mutually perpendicular 8-fold axes cannot generate P4 32 on projection to 3-d space and how this 1 may instead be accomplished from a six-dimensional model. A procedure for generating the actual structure of β-Mn lifted to six-dimensional space is given. Keywords: octagonal quasicrystal; approximant; six-dimensional space 1. Introduction The octagonal quasi crystals (oQC) discovered by Kuo and his co-workers [1,2], in the late 1980s are elusiv