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, a 7-orthoplex, or 7-

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, is a regular 7-polytope with 14 vertices, 84

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s, 280 triangle

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, 560 tetrahedron cells, 672

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s ''4-faces'', 448 ''5-faces'', and 128 ''6-faces''. It has two constructed forms, the first being regular with Schläfli symbol , and the second with alternately labeled (checkerboarded) facets, with Schläfli symbol or Coxeter symbol 4₁₁. It is a part of an infinite family of polytopes, called cross-polytopes or ''orthoplexes''. The

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is the 7- hypercube, or hepteract.

Alternate names

* Heptacross, derived from combining the family name ''cross polytope'' with ''hept'' for seven (dimensions) in

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. * Hecatonicosoctaexon as a 128- facetted 7-polytope (polyexon).

As a configuration

This configuration matrix represents the 7-orthoplex. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells, 4-faces, 5-faces and 6-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 7-orthoplex. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element.Coxeter, Complex Regular Polytopes, p.117

\begin\begin
14 & 12 & 60 & 160 & 240 & 192 & 64 
\\ 2 & 84 & 10 & 40 & 80 & 80 & 32 
\\ 3 & 3 & 280 & 8 & 24 & 32 & 16 
\\ 4 & 6 & 4 & 560 & 6 & 12 & 8 
\\ 5 & 10 & 10 & 5 & 672 & 4 & 4 
\\ 6 & 15 & 20 & 15 & 6 & 448 & 2 
\\ 7 & 21 & 35 & 35 & 21 & 7 & 128 
\end\end

Images

Construction

There are two

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s associated with the 7-orthoplex, one regular, dual of the hepteract with the C₇ or ,3,3,3,3,3symmetry group, and a half symmetry with two copies of 6-simplex facets, alternating, with the D₇ or ^4,1,1symmetry group. A lowest symmetry construction is based on a dual of a 7-

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, called a 7-fusil.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a 7-orthoplex, centered at the origin are : (±1,0,0,0,0,0,0), (0,±1,0,0,0,0,0), (0,0,±1,0,0,0,0), (0,0,0,±1,0,0,0), (0,0,0,0,±1,0,0), (0,0,0,0,0,±1,0), (0,0,0,0,0,0,±1) Every

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pair is connected by an

, except opposites.

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, Peter McMullen, 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. (1966) *

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Polytopes of Various Dimensions

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