2 51 honeycomb

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251 honeycomb
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Type Uniform tessellation
Family 2k1 polytope
Schläfli symbol {3,3,35,1}
Coxeter symbol 251
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Template:CDD
8-face types 241 File:2 41 t0 E8.svg
{37} File:8-simplex t0.svg
7-face types 231 File:Gosset 2 31 polytope.svg
{36} File:7-simplex t0.svg
6-face types 221 File:E6 graph.svg
{35} File:6-simplex t0.svg
5-face types 211 File:Cross graph 5.svg
{34} File:5-simplex t0.svg
4-face type {33} File:4-simplex t0.svg
Cells {32} File:3-simplex t0.svg
Faces {3}File:2-simplex t0.svg
Vertex figure 151 File:8-demicube.svg
Edge figure 051 File:7-simplex t1.svg
Coxeter group E~8, [35,2,1]

In 8-dimensional geometry, the 251 honeycomb is a space-filling uniform tessellation. It is composed of 241 polytope and 8-simplex facets arranged in an 8-demicube vertex figure. It is the final figure in the 2k1 family.

Construction

It is created by a Wythoff construction upon a set of 9 hyperplane mirrors in 8-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram.

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Removing the node on the short branch leaves the 8-simplex.

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Removing the node on the end of the 5-length branch leaves the 241.

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The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the 8-demicube, 151.

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The edge figure is the vertex figure of the vertex figure. This makes the rectified 7-simplex, 051.

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Related polytopes and honeycombs

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References

  • Coxeter The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, Template:Isbn (Chapter 3: Wythoff's Construction for Uniform Polytopes)
  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes (1963), Macmillan Company
    • Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, Template:Isbn (Chapter 5: The Kaleidoscope)
  • 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, wiley.com, Template:Isbn
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3–45]

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