5-demicube

Demipenteract (5-demicube)
Petrie polygon projection
Type	Uniform 5-polytope
Family (Dn)	5-demicube
Families (En)	k21 polytope 1k2 polytope
Coxeter symbol	121
Schläfli symbol	{31,2,1} h{4,3,3,3} s{2,2,2,2}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
4-faces	26	10 {31,1,1} 16 {3,3,3}
Cells	120	40 {31,0,1} 80 {3,3}
Faces	160	{3}
Edges	80
Vertices	16
Vertex figure	rectified 5-cell
Petrie polygon	Octagon
Symmetry group	D5, [34,1,1] = [1+,4,33] [24]+
Properties	convex

In five dimensional geometry, a demipenteract or 5-demicube is a semiregular 5-polytope, constructed from a 5-hypercube (penteract) with alternated vertices deleted.

It was discovered by Thorold Gosset. Since it was the only semiregular 5-polytope (made of more than one type of regular hypercell), he called it a 5-ic semi-regular.

Coxeter named this polytope as 1₂₁ from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, which has branches of length 2, 1 and 1 with a ringed node on one of the short branches. It exists in the k₂₁ polytope family as 1₂₁ with the Gosset polytopes: 2₂₁, 3₂₁, and 4₂₁.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a demipenteract centered at the origin and edge length 2√2 are alternate halves of the penteract:

(±1,±1,±1,±1,±1)

with an odd number of plus signs.

Projected images

Perspective projection.

Images

orthographic projections

Coxeter plane	B5
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[10/2]
Coxeter plane	D5	D4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[8]	[6]
Coxeter plane	D3	A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[4]	[4]

Related polytopes

It is a part of a dimensional family of uniform polytopes called demihypercubes for being alternation of the hypercube family.

There are 23 uniform polytera (uniform 5-polytope) that can be constructed from the D₅ symmetry of the demipenteract, 8 of which are unique to this family, and 15 are shared within the penteractic family.

t0(121)

t0,1(121)

t0,2(121)

t0,3(121)

t0,1,2(121)

t0,1,3(121)

t0,2,3(121)

t0,1,2,3(121)

References

• T. Gosset: On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, Messenger of Mathematics, Macmillan, 1900
• H.S.M. Coxeter:
  • Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8, p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
  • H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd Edition, Dover New York, 1973, p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
  • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, editied by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
    • (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10]
    • (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559-591]
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
• John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26. pp. 409: Hemicubes: 1_n1)
• Richard Klitzing, 5D uniform polytopes (polytera), x3o3o *b3o3o - hin

External links

• Olshevsky, George, Demipenteract at Glossary for Hyperspace.
• Multi-dimensional Glossary