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2 51 honeycomb

In 8-dimensional geometry, the 2<sub>51</sub> honeycomb is a space-filling uniform tessellation. It is composed of 2<sub>41</sub> polytope and 8-simplex facets arranged in an 8-demicube vertex figure. It is the final figure in the 2<sub>k1</sub> 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.

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

Removing the node on the end of the 5-length branch leaves the 2<sub>41</sub>.

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the 8-demicube, 1<sub>51</sub>.

The edge figure is the vertex figure of the vertex figure. This makes the rectified 7-simplex, 0<sub>51</sub>.

Related polytopes and honeycombs

References

  • Coxeter The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, , (Chapter 3: Wythoff's Construction for Uniform Polytopes)
  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes (1963), Macmillan Company
  • Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, , (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, wiley.com,
  • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3–45]