Omnitruncated 5-cell

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Omnitruncated 5-cell

Schlegel diagram with the 5 truncated octahedral cells shown.
Type Uniform polychoron
Cells 10 (4.6.6)
20 (4.4.6)
Faces 150:
90{4}+60{6}
Edges 240
Vertices 120
Vertex figure Chiral irregular tetrahedron
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Image:CDW_ring.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_ring.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_ring.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_ring.png
Schläfli symbol t0,1,2,3{3,3,3}
Symmetry group A4, [3,3,3]
Properties convex

In geometry, the omnitruncated 5-cell is a uniform polychoron.

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[edit] Alternative names

  • Omnitruncated 5-cell
  • Omnitruncated pentachoron
  • Omnitruncated 4-simplex
  • Great prismatodecachoron
  • Gippid (Jonathan Bowers: for great prismatodecachoron)

Just as the truncated octahedron is the permutohedron of order 4, the omnitruncated 5-cell is the permutahedron of order 5.[1] The omnitruncated 5-cell is a zonotope, the Minkowski sum of five line segments parallel to the five lines through the origin and the five vertices of the 5-cell.

[edit] Tessellations

The omnitruncated 5-cell can tessellate 4-dimensional space by itself with 3 hypercells around each face. It has Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of Image:CD downbranch-11.pngImage:CD downbranch-33.pngImage:CD righttriangleopen 111.png.[2] Unlike the 3d honeycomb analogy, the bitruncated cubic honeycomb, which has three different Coxeter group Wythoff constructions, this honeycomb has only one such construction.

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Schlegel diagram,
centered on truncated octahedron


[edit] See also

[edit] External links

  1. ^ The permutahedron of order 5
  2. ^ George Olshevsky, Uniform Panoploid Tetracombs, Manuscript (2006) Lists the tessellation as [140 of 143] Great-prismatodecachoric tetracomb (Omnitruncated pentachoric 4d honeycomb)
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