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Regular enneazetton (8-simplex) | |
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Type | Regular 8-polytope |
Family | simplex |
Schläfli symbol | {3,3,3,3,3,3,3} |
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
7-faces | 9 7-simplex![]() |
6-faces | 36 6-simplex![]() |
5-faces | 84 5-simplex![]() |
4-faces | 126 5-cell![]() |
Cells | 126 tetrahedron![]() |
Faces | 84 triangle![]() |
Edges | 36 |
Vertices | 9 |
Vertex figure | 7-simplex |
Petrie polygon | enneagon |
Coxeter group | A8 [3,3,3,3,3,3,3] |
Dual | Self-dual |
Properties | convex |
In geometry, an 8-simplex is a self-dual regular 8-polytope. It has 9 vertices, 36 edges, 84 triangle faces, 126 tetrahedral cells, 126 5-cell 4-faces, 84 5-simplex 5-faces, 36 6-simplex 6-faces, and 9 7-simplex 7-faces. Its dihedral angle is cos−1(1/8), or approximately 82.82°.
It can also be called an enneazetton, or ennea-8-tope, as a 9-facetted polytope in eight-dimensions. The name enneazetton is derived from ennea for nine facets in Greek and -zetta for having seven-dimensional facets, and -on.
As a configuration
This configuration matrix represents the 8-simplex. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells, 4-faces, 5-faces, 6-faces and 7-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 8-simplex. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element. This self-dual simplex's matrix is identical to its 180 degree rotation.[1][2]
Coordinates
The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of an origin-centered regular enneazetton having edge length 2 are:
More simply, the vertices of the 8-simplex can be positioned in 9-space as permutations of (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1). This construction is based on facets of the 9-orthoplex.
Another origin-centered construction uses (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)/3 and permutations of (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,-11)/12 for edge length √2.
Images
Ak Coxeter plane | A8 | A7 | A6 | A5 |
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Dihedral symmetry | [9] | [8] | [7] | [6] |
Ak Coxeter plane | A4 | A3 | A2 | |
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Dihedral symmetry | [5] | [4] | [3] |
Related polytopes and honeycombs
This polytope is a facet in the uniform tessellations: 251, and 521 with respective Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams:
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This polytope is one of 135 uniform 8-polytopes with A8 symmetry.
References
- ^ Coxeter 1973, §1.8 Configurations
- ^ Coxeter, H.S.M. (1991). Regular Complex Polytopes (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780521394901.
- Coxeter, H.S.M.:
- — (1973). "Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)". Regular Polytopes (3rd ed.). Dover. pp. 296. ISBN 0-486-61480-8.
- Sherk, F. Arthur; McMullen, Peter; Thompson, Anthony C.; Weiss, Asia Ivic, eds. (1995). Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6.
- (Paper 22) — (1940). "Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I". Math. Zeit. 46: 380–407. doi:10.1007/BF01181449. S2CID 186237114.
- (Paper 23) — (1985). "Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II". Math. Zeit. 188 (4): 559–591. doi:10.1007/BF01161657. S2CID 120429557.
- (Paper 24) — (1988). "Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III". Math. Zeit. 200: 3–45. doi:10.1007/BF01161745. S2CID 186237142.
- Conway, John H.; Burgiel, Heidi; Goodman-Strauss, Chaim (2008). "26. Hemicubes: 1n1". The Symmetries of Things. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5.
- Johnson, Norman (1991). "Uniform Polytopes" (Manuscript). Norman Johnson (mathematician).
- Johnson, N.W. (1966). The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs (PhD). University of Toronto. OCLC 258527038.
- Klitzing, Richard. "8D uniform polytopes (polyzetta) x3o3o3o3o3o3o3o — ene".
External links
- Glossary for hyperspace, George Olshevsky.
- Polytopes of Various Dimensions
- Multi-dimensional Glossary