In geometry of 4 dimensions, a 3-4 duoprism, the second smallest p-q duoprism, is a 4-polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of a triangle and a square.
The 3-4 duoprism exists in some of the uniform 5-polytopes in the B5 family.
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Related complex polygons
The quasiregular complex polytope <sub>3</sub>{}ÃÂ<sub>4</sub>{}, , in has a real representation as a 3-4 duoprism in 4-dimensional space. It has 12 vertices, and 4 3-edges and 3 4-edges. Its symmetry is <sub>3</sub>[2]<sub>4</sub>, order 12.
Related polytopes
The birectified 5-cube, has a uniform 3-4 duoprism vertex figure:
3-4 duopyramid
The dual of a 3-4 duoprism is called a 3-4 duopyramid. It has 12 digonal disphenoid cells, 24 isosceles triangular faces, 12 edges, and 7 vertices.
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References
- Regular Polytopes, H. S. M. Coxeter, Dover Publications, Inc., 1973, New York, p. 124.
- Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, (Chapter 5: Regular Skew Polyhedra in three and four dimensions and their topological analogues)
- Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Skew Polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions. Proc. London Math. Soc. 43, 33âÂÂ62, 1937.
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, (Chapter 26)
- Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1966
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