In five-dimensional

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, a rectified 5-orthoplex is a convex

uniform 5-polytope In geometry, a uniform 5-polytope is a five-dimensional uniform polytope. By definition, a uniform 5-polytope is vertex-transitive and constructed from uniform 4-polytope Facet (geometry), facets. The complete set of convex uniform 5-polytopes ...

, being a

rectification Rectification has the following technical meanings: Mathematics * Rectification (geometry), truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points * Rectifiable curve, in mathematics * Recti ...

of the regular

5-orthoplex In five-dimensional geometry, a 5-orthoplex, or 5-cross polytope, is a five-dimensional polytope with 10 vertices, 40 edges, 80 triangle faces, 80 tetrahedron cells, 32 5-cell 4-faces. It has two constructed forms, the first being regular with ...

. There are 5 degrees of rectifications for any 5-polytope, the zeroth here being the

itself, and the 4th and last being the

5-cube In five-dimensional geometry, a 5-cube is a name for a five-dimensional hypercube with 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 square faces, 40 cubic cells, and 10 tesseract 4-faces. It is represented by Schläfli symbol or , constructed as 3 tesseracts, ...

. 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

Its 40 vertices represent the root vectors of the

simple Lie group In mathematics, a simple Lie group is a connected non-abelian Lie group ''G'' which does not have nontrivial connected normal subgroups. The list of simple Lie groups can be used to read off the list of simple Lie algebras and Riemannian symme ...

D₅. The vertices can be seen in 3

hyperplane In geometry, a hyperplane is a subspace whose dimension is one less than that of its ''ambient space''. For example, if a space is 3-dimensional then its hyperplanes are the 2-dimensional planes, while if the space is 2-dimensional, its hyper ...

s, with the 10 vertices

rectified 5-cell In four-dimensional geometry, the rectified 5-cell is a uniform 4-polytope composed of 5 regular tetrahedral and 5 regular octahedral cells. Each edge has one tetrahedron and two octahedra. Each vertex has two tetrahedra and three octahedra. In t ...

s cells on opposite sides, and 20 vertices of a

runcinated 5-cell In four-dimensional geometry, a runcinated 5-cell is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a runcination (a 3rd order truncation, up to face-planing) of the regular 5-cell. There are 3 unique degrees of runcinations of the 5-cell, including with per ...

passing through the center. When combined with the 10 vertices of the

, these vertices represent the 50 root vectors of the B₅ and C₅ simple Lie groups.

E. L. Elte Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (16 March 1881 in Amsterdam – 9 April 1943 in Sobibor extermination camp, Sobibór) Em ...

identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, identifying it as Cr₅¹ as a first rectification of a 5-dimensional

cross polytope In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in ''n''- dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, a 3-dimensional cross-polytope is a regular octahe ...

Alternate names

* rectified pentacross * rectified triacontiditeron (32-faceted 5-polytope)

Construction

There are two

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s associated with the ''rectified pentacross'', one with the C₅ or ,3,3,3Coxeter group, and a lower symmetry with two copies of ''16-cell'' facets, alternating, with the D₅ or ^2,1,1Coxeter group.

Cartesian coordinates

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for the vertices of a rectified pentacross, centered at the origin, edge length

\sqrt\

are all permutations of: : (±1,±1,0,0,0)

Images

Related polytopes

The ''rectified 5-orthoplex'' is the vertex figure for the 5-demicube honeycomb: : or This polytope is one of 31

generated from the regular

Notes

References

* 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,

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, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995,

*** (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I'', ath. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10*** (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II'', ath. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559-591*** (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III'', ath. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45* Norman Johnson ''Uniform Polytopes'', Manuscript (1991) ** N.W. Johnson: ''The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs'', Ph.D. * o3x3o3o4o - rat

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Polytopes of Various Dimensions

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