In
five-dimensional geometry
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, a 5-
simplex is a self-dual
regular 5-polytope
In geometry, a five-dimensional polytope (or 5-polytope) is a polytope in five-dimensional space, bounded by ( 4-polytope) facets, pairs of which share a polyhedral cell.
Definition
A 5-polytope is a closed five-dimensional figure with vertic ...
. It has six
vertices, 15
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s, 20 triangle
faces
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, 15 tetrahedral
cells, and 6
5-cell
In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, pentachoron, pentatope, pentahedroid, or tetrahedral pyramid. It i ...
facets
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. It has a
dihedral angle
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of cos
−1(), or approximately 78.46°.
The 5-simplex is a solution to the problem: ''Make 20 equilateral triangles using 15 matchsticks, where each side of every triangle is exactly one matchstick.''
Alternate names
It can also be called a hexateron, or hexa-5-tope, as a 6-
facetted polytope in 5-dimensions. The
name ''hexateron'' is derived from ''hexa-'' for having six
facets
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and ''
teron'' (with ''ter-'' being a corruption of ''
tetra-
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'') for having four-dimensional facets.
By Jonathan Bowers, a hexateron is given the acronym hix.
As a configuration
This
configuration matrix represents the 5-simplex. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells and 4-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 5-simplex. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element. This self-dual simplex's matrix is identical to its 180 degree rotation.
Regular hexateron cartesian coordinates
The ''hexateron'' can be constructed from a
5-cell
In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, pentachoron, pentatope, pentahedroid, or tetrahedral pyramid. It i ...
by adding a 6th vertex such that it is equidistant from all the other vertices of the 5-cell.
The
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of an origin-centered regular hexateron having edge length 2 are:
:
The vertices of the ''5-simplex'' can be more simply positioned on a
hyperplane in 6-space as permutations of (0,0,0,0,0,1) ''or'' (0,1,1,1,1,1). These construction can be seen as facets of the
6-orthoplex
In geometry, a 6-orthoplex, or 6-cross polytope, is a regular 6-polytope with 12 vertices, 60 edges, 160 triangle faces, 240 tetrahedron cells, 192 5-cell ''4-faces'', and 64 ''5-faces''.
It has two constructed forms, the first being regular wi ...
or
rectified 6-cube respectively.
Projected images
Lower symmetry forms
A lower symmetry form is a ''5-cell pyramid'' ( )v, with
,3,3symmetry order 120, constructed as a
5-cell
In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, pentachoron, pentatope, pentahedroid, or tetrahedral pyramid. It i ...
base in a 4-space
hyperplane, and an
apex
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point ''above'' the hyperplane. The five ''sides'' of the pyramid are made of 5-cell cells. These are seen as
vertex figure
In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
Definitions
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s of truncated regular
6-polytopes, like a
truncated 6-cube
In six-dimensional geometry, a truncated 6-cube (or truncated hexeract) is a convex uniform 6-polytope, being a truncation of the regular 6-cube.
There are 5 truncations for the 6-cube. Vertices of the truncated 6-cube are located as pairs on the ...
.
Another form is ∨, with
,3,3symmetry order 48, the joining of an orthogonal digon and a tetrahedron, orthogonally offset, with all pairs of vertices connected between. Another form is ∨, with
,2,3symmetry order 36, and extended symmetry
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The vertex figure of the omnitruncated 5-simplex honeycomb, , is a 5-simplx with a
projection, with a red and blue 5-simplex vertices and edges. This compound has
symmetry, order 1440. The intersection of these two 5-simplexes is a uniform
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series. A degenerate 4-dimensional case exists as 3-sphere tiling, a tetrahedral
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