8-orthoplex

8-orthoplex
Octacross

Orthogonal projection
inside Petrie polygon
Type Regular 8-polytope
Family orthoplex
Schläfli symbol {36,4}
{3,3,3,3,3,31,1}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
7-faces 256 {36}
6-faces 1024 {35}
5-faces 1792 {34}
4-faces 1792 {33}
Cells 1120 {3,3}
Faces 448 {3}
Edges 112
Vertices 16
Vertex figure 7-orthoplex
Petrie polygon hexadecagon
Coxeter groups C8, [36,4]
D8, [35,1,1]
Dual 8-cube
Properties convex, Hanner polytope

In geometry, an 8-orthoplex or 8-cross polytope is a regular 8-polytope with 16 vertices, 112 edges, 448 triangle faces, 1120 tetrahedron cells, 1792 5-cells 4-faces, 1792 5-faces, 1024 6-faces, and 256 7-faces.

It has two constructive forms, the first being regular with Schläfli symbol {36,4}, and the second with alternately labeled (checkerboarded) facets, with Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3,3,31,1} or Coxeter symbol 511.

It is a part of an infinite family of polytopes, called cross-polytopes or orthoplexes. The dual polytope is an 8-hypercube, or octeract.

Alternate names

  • Octacross, derived from combining the family name cross polytope with oct for eight (dimensions) in Greek
  • Diacosipentacontahexazetton as a 256-facetted 8-polytope (polyzetton)

As a configuration

This configuration matrix represents the 8-orthoplex. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells, 4-faces, 5-faces, 6-faces and 7-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 8-orthoplex. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element.[1][2]

The diagonal f-vector numbers are derived through the Wythoff construction, dividing the full group order of a subgroup order by removing individual mirrors. [3]

B8 k-face fk f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 k-figure notes
B7 ( ) f0 16 14 84 280 560 672 448 128 {3,3,3,3,3,4} B8/B7 = 2^8*8!/2^7/7! = 16
A1B6 { } f1 2 112 12 60 160 240 192 64 {3,3,3,3,4} B8/A1B6 = 2^8*8!/2/2^6/6! = 112
A2B5 {3} f2 3 3 448 10 40 80 80 32 {3,3,3,4} B8/A2B5 = 2^8*8!/3!/2^5/5! = 448
A3B4 {3,3} f3 4 6 4 1120 8 24 32 16 {3,3,4} B8/A3B4 = 2^8*8!/4!/2^4/4! = 1120
A4B3 {3,3,3} f4 5 10 10 5 1792 6 12 8 {3,4} B8/A4B3 = 2^8*8!/5!/8/3! = 1792
A5B2 {3,3,3,3} f5 6 15 20 15 6 1792 4 4 {4} B8/A5B2 = 2^8*8!/6!/4/2 = 1792
A6A1 {3,3,3,3,3} f6 7 21 35 35 21 7 1024 2 { } B8/A6A1 = 2^8*8!/7!/2 = 1024
A7 {3,3,3,3,3,3} f7 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 256 ( ) B8/A7 = 2^8*8!/8! = 256

Construction

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the 8-cube, one regular, dual of the octeract with the C8 or [4,3,3,3,3,3,3] symmetry group, and a half symmetry with two copies of 7-simplex facets, alternating, with the D8 or [35,1,1] symmetry group. A lowest symmetry construction is based on a dual of an 8-orthotope, called an 8-fusil.

Name Coxeter diagram Schläfli symbol Symmetry Order Vertex figure
regular 8-orthoplex {3,3,3,3,3,3,4} [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] 10321920
Quasiregular 8-orthoplex {3,3,3,3,3,31,1} [3,3,3,3,3,31,1] 5160960
8-fusil 8{} [27] 256

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of an 8-cube, centered at the origin are

(±1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), (0,±1,0,0,0,0,0,0), (0,0,±1,0,0,0,0,0), (0,0,0,±1,0,0,0,0),
(0,0,0,0,±1,0,0,0), (0,0,0,0,0,±1,0,0), (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,±1), (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,±1)

Every vertex pair is connected by an edge, except opposites.

Images

orthographic projections
B8 B7
[16] [14]
B6 B5
[12] [10]
B4 B3 B2
[8] [6] [4]
A7 A5 A3
[8] [6] [4]

It is used in its alternated form 511 with the 8-simplex to form the 521 honeycomb.

References

  1. ^ Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, sec 1.8 Configurations
  2. ^ Coxeter, Complex Regular Polytopes, p.117
  3. ^ Klitzing, Richard. "x3o3o3o3o3o3o4o - ek".
  • H.S.M. Coxeter:
    • H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd Edition, Dover New York, 1973
    • 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 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10]
      • (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559-591]
      • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
  • Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
    • N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D.
  • Klitzing, Richard. "8D uniform polytopes (polyzetta) x3o3o3o3o3o3o4o - ek".
Fundamental convex regular and uniform polytopes in dimensions 2–10
Family An Bn I2(p) / Dn E6 / E7 / E8 / F4 / G2 Hn
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 1k2 • 2k1 • k21 n-pentagonal polytope
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