9-simplex

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Regular decayotton
(9-simplex)

Orthogonal projection
inside Petrie polygon
TypeRegular 9-polytope
Familysimplex
Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
8-faces10 8-simplex
7-faces45 7-simplex
6-faces120 6-simplex
5-faces210 5-simplex
4-faces252 5-cell
Cells210 tetrahedron
Faces120 triangle
Edges45
Vertices10
Vertex figure8-simplex
Petrie polygondecagon
Coxeter group A9 [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3]
DualSelf-dual
Propertiesconvex

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.

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}},\ \pm 1\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 (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1). 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]

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
      • (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: 1n1)
  • Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
    • N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. (1966)
  • Richard Klitzing, 9D uniform polytopes (polyyotta), x3o3o3o3o3o3o3o3o - day

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