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    Jeroen Neyns
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    1. A tensor (of rank 2) has axial symmetry when it remains unchanged under the rotation operation.
    2. The toy model depicted is perfectly symmetrical in the x-y, y-z and x-z plane so it remains unchanged when rotated around any axis.

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