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6-cube Hexeract
Orthogonal projection inside Petrie polygon Orange vertices are doubled, and the center yellow has 4 vertices
Type	Regular 6-polytope
Family	hypercube
Schläfli symbol	{4,3⁴}
Coxeter diagram
5-faces	12 {4,3,3,3}
4-faces	60 {4,3,3}
Cells	160 {4,3}
Faces	240 {4}
Edges	192
Vertices	64
Vertex figure	5-simplex
Petrie polygon	dodecagon
Coxeter group	B₆, [3⁴,4]
Dual	6-orthoplex
Properties	convex, Hanner polytope

In geometry, a 6-cube is a six-dimensional hypercube with 64 vertices, 192 edges, 240 square faces, 160 cubic cells, 60 tesseract 4-faces, and 12 5-cube 5-faces.

It has Schläfli symbol {4,3⁴}, being composed of 3 5-cubes around each 4-face. It can be called a hexeract, a portmanteau of tesseract (the 4-cube) with hex for six (dimensions) in Greek. It can also be called a regular dodeca-6-tope or dodecapeton, being a 6-dimensional polytope constructed from 12 regular facets.

Related polytopes

It is a part of an infinite family of polytopes, called hypercubes. The dual of a 6-cube can be called a 6-orthoplex, and is a part of the infinite family of cross-polytopes. It is composed of various 5-cubes, at perpendicular angles on the u-axis, forming coordinates (x,y,z,w,v,u).^[1]^[2]

Applying an alternation operation, deleting alternating vertices of the 6-cube, creates another uniform polytope, called a 6-demicube, (part of an infinite family called demihypercubes), which has 12 5-demicube and 32 5-simplex facets.

As a configuration

This configuration matrix represents the 6-cube. 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-cube. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element.^[3]^[4]

${\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{matrix}64&6&15&20&15&6\\2&192&5&10&10&5\\4&4&240&4&6&4\\8&12&6&160&3&3\\16&32&24&8&60&2\\32&80&80&40&10&12\end{matrix}}\end{bmatrix}}$

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a 6-cube centered at the origin and edge length 2 are

(±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1)

while the interior of the same consists of all points (x₀, x₁, x₂, x₃, x₄, x₅) with −1 < x_i < 1.

Construction

There are three Coxeter groups associated with the 6-cube, one regular, with the C₆ or [4,3,3,3,3] Coxeter group, and a half symmetry (D₆) or [3^3,1,1] Coxeter group. The lowest symmetry construction is based on hyperrectangles or proprisms, cartesian products of lower dimensional hypercubes.

Name	Schläfli	Symmetry	Order
Regular 6-cube	{4,3,3,3,3}	[4,3,3,3,3]	46080
Quasiregular 6-cube		[3,3,3,3^1,1]	23040
hyperrectangle	{4,3,3,3}×{}	[4,3,3,3,2]	7680
	{4,3,3}×{4}	[4,3,3,2,4]	3072
	{4,3}²	[4,3,2,4,3]	2304
	{4,3,3}×{}²	[4,3,3,2,2]	1536
	{4,3}×{4}×{}	[4,3,2,4,2]	768
	{4}³	[4,2,4,2,4]	512
	{4,3}×{}³	[4,3,2,2,2]	384
	{4}²×{}²	[4,2,4,2,2]	256
	{4}×{}⁴	[4,2,2,2,2]	128
	{}⁶	[2,2,2,2,2]	64

Projections

orthographic projections
Coxeter plane	B₆	B₅	B₄
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[12]	[10]	[8]
Coxeter plane	Other	B₃	B₂
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[2]	[6]	[4]
Coxeter plane		A₅	A₃
Graph
Dihedral symmetry		[6]	[4]

3D Projections
6-cube 6D simple rotation through 2Pi with 6D perspective projection to 3D.	6-cube quasicrystal structure orthographically projected to 3D using the golden ratio.
A 3D perspective projection of a hexeract undergoing a triple rotation about the X-W1, Y-W2 and Z-W3 orthogonal planes.

Related polytopes

The 64 vertices of a 6-cube also represent a regular skew 4-polytope {4,3,4 | 4}. Its net can be seen as a 4×4×4 matrix of 64 cubes, a periodic subset of the cubic honeycomb, {4,3,4}, in 3-dimensions. It has 192 edges, and 192 square faces. Opposite faces fold together into a 4-cycle. Each fold direction adds 1 dimension, raising it into 6-space.

The 6-cube is 6th in a series of hypercube:

Petrie polygon orthographic projections

Line segment	Square	Cube	4-cube	5-cube	6-cube	7-cube	8-cube	9-cube	10-cube

This polytope is one of 63 uniform 6-polytopes generated from the B₆ Coxeter plane, including the regular 6-cube or 6-orthoplex.

References

^ "(PDF) A New Six-Dimensional Hyper-Chaotic System".
^ "An improved projection operation for cylindrical algebraic decomposition of three-dimensional space - ScienceDirect".
^ Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, sec 1.8 Configurations
^ Coxeter, Complex Regular Polytopes, p.117

Coxeter, H.S.M. 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)
Klitzing, Richard. "6D uniform polytopes (polypeta) o3o3o3o3o4x - ax".

External links

Weisstein, Eric W. "Hypercube". MathWorld.
Olshevsky, George. "Measure polytope". Glossary for Hyperspace. Archived from the original on 4 February 2007.
Multi-dimensional Glossary: hypercube Garrett Jones

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
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