5-cube

Rectified 5-cube

Birectified 5-cube
Birectified 5-orthoplex

5-orthoplex

Rectified 5-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in A5 Coxeter plane

In five-dimensional geometry, a rectified 5-cube is a convex uniform 5-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 5-cube.

There are 5 degrees of rectifications of a 5-polytope, the zeroth here being the 5-cube, and the 4th and last being the 5-orthoplex. Vertices of the rectified 5-cube are located at the edge-centers of the 5-cube. Vertices of the birectified 5-cube are located in the square face centers of the 5-cube.

Rectified 5-cube

Alternate names

  • Rectified penteract (acronym: rin) (Jonathan Bowers)[1]

Construction

The rectified 5-cube may be constructed from the 5-cube by truncating its vertices at the midpoints of its edges.

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the rectified 5-cube with edge length \sqrt{2} is given by all permutations of:

(0,\ \pm1,\ \pm1,\ \pm1,\ \pm1)

Birectified 5-cube

E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, identifying it as Cr52 as a second rectification of a 5-dimensional cross polytope.

Alternate names

  • Birectified 5-cube/penteract
  • Birectified pentacross/5-orthoplex/triacontaditeron
  • Penteractitriacontaditeron (acronym: nit) (Jonathan Bowers)[2]
  • Rectified 5-demicube/demipenteract

Construction and coordinates

The birectified 5-cube may be constructed by birectifying the vertices of the 5-cube at \sqrt{2} of the edge length.

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a birectified 5-cube having edge length 2 are all permutations of:

\left(0,\ 0,\ \pm1,\ \pm1,\ \pm1\right)

These polytopes are a part of 31 uniform polytera generated from the regular 5-cube or 5-orthoplex.

Notes

  1. ^ Klitzing, pp. (o3x3o3o4o - rin).
  2. ^ Klitzing, pp. (o3o3x3o4o - nit).

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 Ivić Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, wiley.com, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6
      • (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]
  • Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
    • N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D.
  • o3x3o3o4o - rin, o3o3x3o4o - nit