6-simplex

6-simplex
Type	uniform polypeton
Schläfli symbol	{3⁵}
Coxeter 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	${\sqrt {\tfrac {3}{7}}}$ 0.654654^[1]
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°.

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.^[2]

As a configuration

This configuration matrix represents the 6-simplex. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells, 4-faces and 5-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 6-simplex. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element. This self-dual simplex's matrix is identical to its 180 degree rotation.^[3]^[4]

${\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{matrix}7&6&15&20&15&6\\2&21&5&10&10&5\\3&3&35&4&6&4\\4&6&4&35&3&3\\5&10&10&5&21&2\\6&15&20&15&6&7\end{matrix}}\end{bmatrix}}$

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}},\ \pm 1\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.

A6 polytopes
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, Richard. "heptapeton". bendwavy.org.
^ Klitzing, Richard. "6D uniform polytopes (polypeta) x3o3o3o3o3o — hop".
^ Coxeter 1973, §1.8 Configurations
^ Coxeter, H.S.M. (1991). Regular Complex Polytopes (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780521394901.

References

Coxeter, H.S.M.:
- — (1973). "Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)". Regular Polytopes (3rd ed.). Dover. p. 296. ISBN 0-486-61480-8.
- Sherk, F. Arthur; McMullen, Peter; Thompson, Anthony C.; Weiss, Asia Ivic, eds. (1995). Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6.
  - (Paper 22) — (1940). "Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I". Math. Zeit. 46: 380–407. doi:10.1007/BF01181449. S2CID 186237114.
  - (Paper 23) — (1985). "Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II". Math. Zeit. 188 (4): 559–591. doi:10.1007/BF01161657. S2CID 120429557.
  - (Paper 24) — (1988). "Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III". Math. Zeit. 200: 3–45. doi:10.1007/BF01161745. S2CID 186237142.
Conway, John H.; Burgiel, Heidi; Goodman-Strauss, Chaim (2008). "26. Hemicubes: 1_n1". The Symmetries of Things. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5.
Johnson, Norman (1991). "Uniform Polytopes" (Manuscript). Norman Johnson (mathematician).
- Johnson, N.W. (1966). The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs (PhD). University of Toronto. OCLC 258527038.

External links

Olshevsky, George. "Simplex". Glossary for Hyperspace. Archived from the original on 4 February 2007.
Polytopes of Various Dimensions
Multi-dimensional Glossary

v t e Fundamental convex regular and uniform polytopes in dimensions 2–10
Family	A_n	B_n	I₂(p) / D_n	E₆ / E₇ / E₈ / F₄ / G₂	H_n
Regular polygon	Triangle	Square	p-gon	Hexagon	Pentagon
Uniform polyhedron	Tetrahedron	Octahedron • Cube	Demicube		Dodecahedron • Icosahedron
Uniform polychoron	Pentachoron	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
Uniform n-polytope	n-simplex	n-orthoplex • n-cube	n-demicube	1_k2 • 2_k1 • k₂₁	n-pentagonal polytope
Topics: Polytope families • Regular polytope • List of regular polytopes and compounds

[klitzing_hop-1] Klitzing, Richard. "heptapeton". bendwavy.org.

[2] Klitzing, Richard. "6D uniform polytopes (polypeta) x3o3o3o3o3o — hop".

[3] Coxeter 1973, §1.8 Configurations

[4] Coxeter, H.S.M. (1991). Regular Complex Polytopes (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780521394901.

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