Abstract
For pt.I see J. Phys. A (GB), vol.11, no.6, p.1045 (1978). Using cubic systems as illustrative examples the author derives and extends previous results on the invariances of Jahn-Teller systems using a more direct method. The theory is more general in being applicable to all simple-phase real-character physical symmetry groups. It is shown how various continuous groups can be generated by electronic operators and that if some set of even operators (those taking part in the Jahn-Teller effect) is closed under commutation with the generators of such a group then an invariant model can be set up by coupling modes equally. If all the even modes are coupled equally then the resulting model is invariant under SO(n) or Sp(n) where n is the degeneracy of the electronic state. The results are used to study the invariances of icosahedral Jahn-Teller systems. For a fivefold degenerate electronic state, SO(5) and SO(3) invariant models can be produced. For a fourfold degenerate state, an SO(4) invariant model can be produced. The single mode, threefold degenerate state model is invariant under SO(3).

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