On Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic crystallography

A major impetus in the early development of group theory in the 19th century was the study of geometrical symmetries. Inspired by the theory regarding orbifold notation developed by John Conway, we understand and analyze the theory of the classification of symmetrical patterns in three different spaces. One of the triumphs was the full understanding of 2-dimensional planar symmetries, precisely, the classification theorem of wallpaper groups. Then we use the same way to classify the symmetrical patterns in spherical and hyperbolic spaces. There were also scattered theories on the general notion called crystallographic groups. In this paper, we reproduce the classical result that there are 17 types of wallpaper groups using a topological method; we also conclude that there are 14 family cases in the spherical space and infinite conditions in the hyperbolic spaces. During this process, we first consider the three different spaces, then, analyze the symmetrical patterns case by case. The characteristic we consider to classify these patterns is orbifold; finally, we use the formulas to calculate the result.