2 51 honeycomb

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Short description: Eight-dimensional geometric tessellation


251 honeycomb
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Type Uniform tessellation
Family 2k1 polytope
Schläfli symbol {3,3,35,1}
Coxeter symbol 251
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram CDel nodea 1.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel branch.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.png
8-face types 241Gosset 2 41 petrie.svg
{37}8-simplex t0.svg
7-face types 231Gosset 2 31 polytope.svg
{36}7-simplex t0.svg
6-face types 221E6 graph.svg
{35}6-simplex t0.svg
5-face types 211Cross graph 5.svg
{34}5-simplex t0.svg
4-face type {33}4-simplex t0.svg
Cells {32}3-simplex t0.svg
Faces {3}2-simplex t0.svg
Edge figure 051 6-simplex t1.svg
Vertex figure 151 8-demicube.svg
Edge figure 051 7-simplex t1.svg
Coxeter group [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{E}}_8 }[/math], [35,2,1]

In 8-dimensional geometry, the 251 honeycomb is a space-filling uniform tessellation. It is composed of 241 polytope and 8-simplex facets arranged in an 8-demicube vertex figure. It is the final figure in the 2k1 family.

Construction

It is created by a Wythoff construction upon a set of 9 hyperplane mirrors in 8-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram.

CDel nodea 1.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel branch.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.png

Removing the node on the short branch leaves the 8-simplex.

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Removing the node on the end of the 5-length branch leaves the 241.

CDel nodea 1.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel branch.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.png

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the 8-demicube, 151.

CDel nodea 1.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel branch.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.png

The edge figure is the vertex figure of the vertex figure. This makes the rectified 7-simplex, 051.

CDel branch 10.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.pngCDel 3a.pngCDel nodea.png

Related polytopes and honeycombs

References

  • Coxeter The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN:978-0-486-40919-1 (Chapter 3: Wythoff's Construction for Uniform Polytopes)
  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes (1963), Macmillan Company
    • Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, ISBN:0-486-61480-8 (Chapter 5: The Kaleidoscope)
  • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN:978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
Fundamental convex regular and uniform honeycombs in dimensions 2-9
Space Family [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{A}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{C}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{B}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{D}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{G}}_2 }[/math] / [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{F}}_4 }[/math] / [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{E}}_{n-1} }[/math]
E2 Uniform tiling {3[3]} δ3 3 3 Hexagonal
E3 Uniform convex honeycomb {3[4]} δ4 4 4
E4 Uniform 4-honeycomb {3[5]} δ5 5 5 24-cell honeycomb
E5 Uniform 5-honeycomb {3[6]} δ6 6 6
E6 Uniform 6-honeycomb {3[7]} δ7 7 7 222
E7 Uniform 7-honeycomb {3[8]} δ8 8 8 133331
E8 Uniform 8-honeycomb {3[9]} δ9 9 9 152251521
E9 Uniform 9-honeycomb {3[10]} δ10 10 10
En-1 Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb {3[n]} δn n n 1k22k1k21