6-simplex

6-simplex
Type	uniform polypeton
Schläfli symbol	{3⁵}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
Elements	f₅ = 7, f₄ = 21, C = 35, F = 35, E = 21, V = 7 (χ=0)
Coxeter group	A₆, [3⁵], order 5040
Bowers name and (acronym)	Heptapeton (hop)
Vertex figure	5-simplex
Circumradius	0.645497
Properties	convex, isogonal self-dual

In geometry, a 6-simplex is a self-dual regular 6-polytope. It has 7 vertices, 21 edges, 35 triangle faces, 35 tetrahedral cells, 21 5-cell 4-faces, and 7 5-simplex 5-faces. Its dihedral angle is cos⁻¹(1/6), or approximately 80.41°.

1 Alternate names
2 Coordinates
3 Images
4 Related uniform 6-polytopes
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

Alternate names

It can also be called a heptapeton, or hepta-6-tope, as a 7-facetted polytope in 6-dimensions. The name heptapeton is derived from hepta for seven facets in Greek and -peta for having five-dimensional facets, and -on. Jonathan Bowers gives a heptapeton the acronym hop.^[1]

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates for an origin-centered regular heptapeton having edge length 2 are:

$\left(\sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ \sqrt{1/6},\ \sqrt{1/3},\ \pm1\right)$

$\left(\sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ \sqrt{1/6},\ -2\sqrt{1/3},\ 0\right)$

$\left(\sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ -\sqrt{3/2},\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left(\sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ -2\sqrt{2/5},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left(\sqrt{1/21},\ -\sqrt{5/3},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left(-\sqrt{12/7},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

The vertices of the 6-simplex can be more simply positioned in 7-space as permutations of:

(0,0,0,0,0,0,1)

This construction is based on facets of the 7-orthoplex.

Images

orthographic projections
A_k Coxeter plane	A₆	A₅	A₄
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[7]	[6]	[5]
A_k Coxeter plane	A₃	A₂
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[4]	[3]

Related uniform 6-polytopes

The regular 6-simplex is one of 35 uniform 6-polytopes based on the [3,3,3,3,3] Coxeter group, all shown here in A₆ Coxeter plane orthographic projections.

t₀	t₁	t₂	t_0,1	t_0,2	t_1,2	t_0,3	t_1,3	t_2,3
t_0,4	t_1,4	t_0,5	t_0,1,2	t_0,1,3	t_0,2,3	t_1,2,3	t_0,1,4	t_0,2,4
t_1,2,4	t_0,3,4	t_0,1,5	t_0,2,5	t_0,1,2,3	t_0,1,2,4	t_0,1,3,4	t_0,2,3,4	t_1,2,3,4
t_0,1,2,5	t_0,1,3,5	t_0,2,3,5	t_0,1,4,5	t_0,1,2,3,4	t_0,1,2,3,5	t_0,1,2,4,5	t_0,1,2,3,4,5

Notes

^ Klitzing, (x3o3o3o3o3o - hop)

References

H.S.M. Coxeter:
- Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8, p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
- H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd Edition, Dover New York, 1973, p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
- Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, editied by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
  - (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10]
  - (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559-591]
  - (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26. pp. 409: Hemicubes: 1_n1)
Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. (1966)
Richard Klitzing, 6D uniform polytopes (polypeta), x3o3o3o3o - hix

External links

Olshevsky, George, Simplex at Glossary for Hyperspace.
Polytopes of Various Dimensions
Multi-dimensional Glossary


Family	A_n	BC_n	D_n	E₆ / E₇ / E₈ / F₄ / G₂	H_n
Regular polygon	Triangle	Square		Hexagon	Pentagon
Uniform polyhedron	Tetrahedron	Octahedron • Cube	Demicube		Dodecahedron • Icosahedron
Uniform polychoron	5-cell	16-cell • Tesseract	Demitesseract	24-cell	120-cell • 600-cell
Uniform 5-polytope	5-simplex	5-orthoplex • 5-cube	5-demicube
Uniform 6-polytope	6-simplex	6-orthoplex • 6-cube	6-demicube	1₂₂ • 2₂₁
Uniform 7-polytope	7-simplex	7-orthoplex • 7-cube	7-demicube	1₃₂ • 2₃₁ • 3₂₁
Uniform 8-polytope	8-simplex	8-orthoplex • 8-cube	8-demicube	1₄₂ • 2₄₁ • 4₂₁
Uniform 9-polytope	9-simplex	9-orthoplex • 9-cube	9-demicube
Uniform 10-polytope	10-simplex	10-orthoplex • 10-cube	10-demicube
n-polytopes	n-simplex	n-orthoplex • n-cube	n-demicube	1_k2 • 2_k1 • k₂₁	pentagonal polytope
Topics: Polytope families • Regular polytope • List of regular polytopes