Listing the elements of a symmetry group of a frieze pattern

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The discussion focuses on the symmetry group G of a frieze pattern F, which exhibits horizontal reflective symmetry and glide reflective symmetry but lacks 180-degree rotation and vertical reflective symmetry. The symmetry group G is defined as G={reflection symmetry, translational symmetry}, with the glide reflection represented as (k,1) and generated by the horizontal translation (1,0) and horizontal reflection (0,1). The elements of G include four types of symmetries: (k,0) for translation, (k,1) for glide reflection, (0,1) for horizontal reflection, and (0,0) for the identity.

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I have run into a problem where I have a frieze pattern F, the frieze pattern has horizontal refelctive symmetry, glide reflective symmetry, but does not have 180 degree rotation and does not have vertical reflective symmetry.

G represents the symmetry group for F. G={reflection symmetry, translational symmetry} and the mirror of the reflection is parallel to the vector of the translation. Hence a glide reflection with the translation composed with the reflection.

I now have to list the elements of G, not exactly sure what to do at that point. Can anybody help me out?
 
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this sounds like the "jump" frieze group, which is isomorphic to Z x Z2, and generated by
the horizontal translation (1,0) and the horizontal reflection (0,1). a glide reflection is of the form (k,1). as with any frieze group it is infinite, but we have basically 4 types of symmetries:

(k,0), a translation
(k,1), a glide reflection
(0,1), the horizontal reflection
(0,0), the identity.
 

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