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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
8-face types 241
{37}
7-face types 231
{36}
6-face types 221
{35}
5-face types 211
{34}
4-face type {33}
Cells {32}
Faces {3}
Edge figure 051
Vertex figure 151
Edge figure 051
Coxeter group , [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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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2k1 figures in n dimensions
Space Finite Euclidean Hyperbolic
n 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Coxeter
group
E3=A2A1 E4=A4 E5=D5 E6 E7 E8 E9 = = E8+ E10 = = E8++
Coxeter
diagram
Symmetry [3−1,2,1] [30,2,1] [[31,2,1]] [32,2,1] [33,2,1] [34,2,1] [35,2,1] [36,2,1]
Order 12 120 384 51,840 2,903,040 696,729,600
Graph - -
Name 2−1,1 201 211 221 231 241 251 261

References

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  • Coxeter The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40919-1 (Chapter 3: Wythoff's Construction for Uniform Polytopes)
  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes (1963), Macmillan Company
    • Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 (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, 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]
Space Family / /
E2 Uniform tiling 0[3] δ3 3 3 Hexagonal
E3 Uniform convex honeycomb 0[4] δ4 4 4
E4 Uniform 4-honeycomb 0[5] δ5 5 5 24-cell honeycomb
E5 Uniform 5-honeycomb 0[6] δ6 6 6
E6 Uniform 6-honeycomb 0[7] δ7 7 7 222
E7 Uniform 7-honeycomb 0[8] δ8 8 8 133331
E8 Uniform 8-honeycomb 0[9] δ9 9 9 152251521
E9 Uniform 9-honeycomb 0[10] δ10 10 10
E10 Uniform 10-honeycomb 0[11] δ11 11 11
En-1 Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb 0[n] δn n n 1k22k1k21