9-simplex

Regular decayotton
(9-simplex)

Orthogonal projection
inside Petrie polygon
Type Regular 9-polytope
Family simplex
Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
8-faces 10 8-simplex
7-faces 45 7-simplex
6-faces 120 6-simplex
5-faces 210 5-simplex
4-faces 252 5-cell
Cells 210 tetrahedron
Faces 120 triangle
Edges 45
Vertices 10
Vertex figure 8-simplex
Petrie polygon decagon
Coxeter group A9 [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3]
Dual Self-dual
Properties convex

In geometry, a 9-simplex is a self-dual regular 9-polytope. It has 10 vertices, 45 edges, 120 triangle faces, 210 tetrahedral cells, 252 5-cell 4-faces, 210 5-simplex 5-faces, 120 6-simplex 6-faces, 45 7-simplex 7-faces, and 10 8-simplex 8-faces. Its dihedral angle is cos−1(1/9), or approximately 83.62°.

It can also be called a decayotton, or deca-9-tope, as a 10-facetted polytope in 9-dimensions.. The name decayotton is derived from deca for ten facets in Greek and -yott (variation of oct for eight), having 8-dimensional facets, and -on.

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Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of an origin-centered regular decayotton having edge length 2 are:

\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ \sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ \sqrt{1/6},\ \sqrt{1/3},\ \pm1\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ \sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ \sqrt{1/6},\ -2\sqrt{1/3},\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ \sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ \sqrt{1/10},\ -\sqrt{3/2},\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ \sqrt{1/21},\ \sqrt{1/15},\ -2\sqrt{2/5},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ \sqrt{1/21},\ -\sqrt{5/3},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ \sqrt{1/28},\ -\sqrt{12/7},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ 1/6,\ -\sqrt{7/4},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(\sqrt{1/45},\ -4/3,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)
\left(-3\sqrt{1/5},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)

More simply, the vertices of the 9-simplex can be positioned in 10-space as permutations of (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1). This construction is based on facets of the 10-orthoplex.

Images

orthographic projections
Ak Coxeter plane A9 A8 A7 A6
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [10] [9] [8] [7]
Ak Coxeter plane A5 A4 A3 A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [5] [4] [3]

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