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Shephard's p-generalised hexadecachoron, complex polychoron x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-op, βp4 |
© p=3 p=4 p=5 | |
Vertex figure | x2-3-o2-4-op |
Coordinates | (εpn, 0, 0, 0) & all permutations, each for any 1≤n≤p, where εp=exp(2πi/p) |
Dual | xp-4-o2-3-o2-3-o2 |
Face vector | 4p, 6p2, 4p3, p4 |
Especially | x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-o3 (p=3) x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-o4 (p=4) x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-o5 (p=5) |
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Those complex polychora are somewhat special in so far as its edges, faces, and calls all are degenerate, i.e. remain real space polytopes only. For p=2 it surely becomes fully depenerate and then is nothing but the real space hex. For larger values of p however, its vertex figure is the truely complex polyhedron x2-3-o2-4-op. Thence it still remains embeddable into a real space polyzetton, in fact into the tegum product of 4 (fully orthogonal) p-gons. In fact the to be chosen cells are just the lacing tets, which have one vertex on each of those p-gons.
Incidence matrix according to Dynkin symbol
x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-op . . . . | 4p ♦ 3p | 3p2 | p3 -----------------+----+-----+-----+--- x2 . . . | 2 | 6p2 ♦ 2p | p2 -----------------+----+-----+-----+--- x2-3-o2 . . | 3 | 3 | 4p3 | p -----------------+----+-----+-----+--- x2-3-o2-3-o2 . ♦ 4 | 6 | 4 | p4
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