Rectified 5-orthoplexes

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In five-dimensional geometry, a rectified 5-orthoplex is a convex uniform 5-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 5-orthoplex.

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5-cube

Rectified 5-cube

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Birectified 5-orthoplex

5-orthoplex

Rectified 5-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in A5 Coxeter plane
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There are 5 degrees of rectifications for any 5-polytope, the zeroth here being the 5-orthoplex itself, and the 4th and last being the 5-cube. Vertices of the rectified 5-orthoplex are located at the edge-centers of the 5-orthoplex. Vertices of the birectified 5-orthoplex are located in the triangular face centers of the 5-orthoplex.

Rectified 5-orthoplex

Rectified pentacross
Typeuniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbolt1{3,3,3,4}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
Hypercells42 total:
10 {3,3,4}
32 t1{3,3,3}
Cells240 total:
80 {3,4}
160 {3,3}
Faces400 total:
80+320 {3}
Edges240
Vertices40
Vertex figure
Octahedral prism
Petrie polygonDecagon
Coxeter groupsBC5, [3,3,3,4]
D5, [32,1,1]
Propertiesconvex

Its 40 vertices represent the root vectors of the simple Lie group D5. The vertices can be seen in 3 hyperplanes, with the 10 vertices rectified 5-cells cells on opposite sides, and 20 vertices of a runcinated 5-cell passing through the center. When combined with the 10 vertices of the 5-orthoplex, these vertices represent the 50 root vectors of the B5 and C5 simple Lie groups.

E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, identifying it as Cr51 as a first rectification of a 5-dimensional cross polytope.

Alternate names

  • Rectified pentacross
  • Rectified triacontaditeron (32-faceted 5-polytope)
  • Acronym: rat (Jonathan Bowers)[1]

Construction

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the rectified pentacross, one with the C5 or [4,3,3,3] Coxeter group, and a lower symmetry with two copies of 16-cell facets, alternating, with the D5 or [32,1,1] Coxeter group.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a rectified pentacross, centered at the origin, edge length are all permutations of:

(±1,±1,0,0,0)

Images

More information Coxeter plane, B5 ...
Orthographic projections
Coxeter plane B5 B4 / D5 B3 / D4 / A2
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Dihedral symmetry [10] [8] [6]
Coxeter plane B2 A3
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Dihedral symmetry [4] [4]
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The rectified 5-orthoplex is the vertex figure for the 5-demicube honeycomb:

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This polytope is one of 31 uniform 5-polytope generated from the regular 5-cube or 5-orthoplex.

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