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Symmetry 2009, 1, 155-179; doi:10.3390/sym1020155 OPEN ACCESS symmetry ISSN 2073-8994 /journal/symmetry Article Tetraquark Spectroscopy: A Symmetry Analysis Javier Vijande 1, and Alfredo Valcarce 2 1 ´ ´ Departamento de Fısica Atomica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Valencia (UV) and IFIC (UV-CSIC), Valencia, Spain 2 ´ Departamento de Fısica Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; E-Mail: valcarce@usal.es Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: javier.vijande@uv.es; Tel.: +34-963543883. Received: 23 October 2009 / Accepted: 13 November 2009 / Published: 23 November 2009 Abstract: We present a detailed analysis of the symmetry properties of a four-quark wave function and its solution by means of a variational approach for simple Hamiltonians. We discuss several examples in the light and heavy-light meson sector. Keywords: Hadron spectroscopy; group theory 1. Introduction The potentiality of the quark model for hadron physics in the low-energy regime became first manifest when it was used to classify the known hadron states. Describing hadrons as qq¯ or qqq configurations, their quantum numbers were correctly explained. This assignment was based on the comment by Gell-Mann [1] introducing the notion of quark: “It is assuming that the lowest baryon configuration (qqq) gives just the representations 1, 8 and 10, that have been observed, while the lowest meson configuration (qq¯) similarly gives just