7-cubic honeycomb

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7-cubic honeycomb
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Type Regular 7-honeycomb
Uniform 7-honeycomb
Family Hypercube honeycomb
Schläfli symbol {4,35,4}
{4,34,31,1}
{∞}(7)
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams CDel node 1.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
CDel node 1.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel split1.pngCDel nodes.png
CDel node 1.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node 1.png
7-face type {4,3,3,3,3,3}
6-face type {4,3,3,3,3}
5-face type {4,3,3,3}
4-face type {4,3,3}
Cell type {4,3}
Face type {4}
Face figure {4,3}
(octahedron)
Edge figure 8 {4,3,3}
(16-cell)
Vertex figure 128 {4,35}
(7-orthoplex)
Coxeter group [4,35,4]
Dual self-dual
Properties vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive, cell-transitive

The 7-cubic honeycomb or hepteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 7-space.

It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space.

There are many different Wythoff constructions of this honeycomb. The most symmetric form is regular, with Schläfli symbol {4,35,4}. Another form has two alternating 7-cube facets (like a checkerboard) with Schläfli symbol {4,34,31,1}. The lowest symmetry Wythoff construction has 128 types of facets around each vertex and a prismatic product Schläfli symbol {∞}(7).

Related honeycombs

The [4,35,4], CDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png, Coxeter group generates 255 permutations of uniform tessellations, 135 with unique symmetry and 134 with unique geometry. The expanded 7-cubic honeycomb is geometrically identical to the 7-cubic honeycomb.

The 7-cubic honeycomb can be alternated into the 7-demicubic honeycomb, replacing the 7-cubes with 7-demicubes, and the alternated gaps are filled by 7-orthoplex facets.

Quadritruncated 7-cubic honeycomb

A quadritruncated 7-cubic honeycomb, CDel branch 11.pngCDel 3ab.pngCDel nodes.pngCDel 3ab.pngCDel nodes.pngCDel 4a4b.pngCDel nodes.png, contains all tritruncated 7-orthoplex facets and is the Voronoi tessellation of the D7* lattice. Facets can be identically colored from a doubled [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{C}}_7 }[/math]×2, 4,35,4 symmetry, alternately colored from [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{C}}_7 }[/math], [4,35,4] symmetry, three colors from [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{B}}_7 }[/math], [4,34,31,1] symmetry, and 4 colors from [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{D}}_7 }[/math], [31,1,33,31,1] symmetry.

See also

  • List of regular polytopes

References

  • Coxeter, H.S.M. Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN:0-486-61480-8 p. 296, Table II: Regular honeycombs
  • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN:978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
Fundamental convex regular and uniform honeycombs in dimensions 2-9
Space Family [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{A}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{C}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{B}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{D}}_{n-1} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{G}}_2 }[/math] / [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{F}}_4 }[/math] / [math]\displaystyle{ {\tilde{E}}_{n-1} }[/math]
E2 Uniform tiling {3[3]} δ3 3 3 Hexagonal
E3 Uniform convex honeycomb {3[4]} δ4 4 4
E4 Uniform 4-honeycomb {3[5]} δ5 5 5 24-cell honeycomb
E5 Uniform 5-honeycomb {3[6]} δ6 6 6
E6 Uniform 6-honeycomb {3[7]} δ7 7 7 222
E7 Uniform 7-honeycomb {3[8]} δ8 8 8 133331
E8 Uniform 8-honeycomb {3[9]} δ9 9 9 152251521
E9 Uniform 9-honeycomb {3[10]} δ10 10 10
En-1 Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb {3[n]} δn n n 1k22k1k21