6-demicubic honeycomb

The 6-demicubic honeycomb or demihexeractic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 6-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 6-cube honeycomb.

6-demicubic honeycomb
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TypeUniform 6-honeycomb
FamilyAlternated hypercube honeycomb
Schläfli symbolh{4,3,3,3,3,4}
h{4,3,3,3,31,1}
ht0,6{4,3,3,3,3,4}
Coxeter diagram =
=
Facets{3,3,3,3,4}
h{4,3,3,3,3}
Vertex figurer{3,3,3,3,4}
Coxeter group [4,3,3,3,31,1]
[31,1,3,3,31,1]

It is composed of two different types of facets. The 6-cubes become alternated into 6-demicubes h{4,3,3,3,3} and the alternated vertices create 6-orthoplex {3,3,3,3,4} facets.

D6 lattice

The vertex arrangement of the 6-demicubic honeycomb is the D6 lattice.[1] The 60 vertices of the rectified 6-orthoplex vertex figure of the 6-demicubic honeycomb reflect the kissing number 60 of this lattice.[2] The best known is 72, from the E6 lattice and the 222 honeycomb.

The D+
6
lattice (also called D2
6
) can be constructed by the union of two D6 lattices. This packing is only a lattice for even dimensions. The kissing number is 25=32 (2n-1 for n<8, 240 for n=8, and 2n(n-1) for n>8).[3]

The D*
6
lattice (also called D4
6
and C2
6
) can be constructed by the union of all four 6-demicubic lattices:[4] It is also the 6-dimensional body centered cubic, the union of two 6-cube honeycombs in dual positions.

= .

The kissing number of the D6* lattice is 12 (2n for n≥5).[5] and its Voronoi tessellation is a trirectified 6-cubic honeycomb, , containing all birectified 6-orthoplex Voronoi cell, .[6]

Symmetry constructions

There are three uniform construction symmetries of this tessellation. Each symmetry can be represented by arrangements of different colors on the 64 6-demicube facets around each vertex.

Coxeter group Schläfli symbol Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Vertex figure
Symmetry
Facets/verf
= [31,1,3,3,3,4]
= [1+,4,3,3,3,3,4]
h{4,3,3,3,3,4} =
[3,3,3,4]
64: 6-demicube
12: 6-orthoplex
= [31,1,3,31,1]
= [1+,4,3,3,31,1]
h{4,3,3,3,31,1} =
[33,1,1]
32+32: 6-demicube
12: 6-orthoplex
½ = [[(4,3,3,3,4,2+)]]ht0,6{4,3,3,3,3,4} 32+16+16: 6-demicube
12: 6-orthoplex

This honeycomb is one of 41 uniform honeycombs constructed by the Coxeter group, all but 6 repeated in other families by extended symmetry, seen in the graph symmetry of rings in the Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams. The 41 permutations are listed with its highest extended symmetry, and related and constructions:

D6 honeycombs
Extended
symmetry
Extended
diagram
Order Honeycombs
[31,1,3,3,31,1] ×1 ,
[[31,1,3,3,31,1]] ×2 , , ,
<[31,1,3,3,31,1]>
↔ [31,1,3,3,3,4]

×2 , , , , , , , ,

, , , , , , ,

<2[31,1,3,3,31,1]>
↔ [4,3,3,3,3,4]

×4 ,,

,,

, , , , , , ,

[<2[31,1,3,3,31,1]>]
↔ [[4,3,3,3,3,4]]

×8 , , ,

, , ,

See also

Notes

  1. "The Lattice D6".
  2. Sphere packings, lattices, and groups, by John Horton Conway, Neil James Alexander Sloane, Eiichi Bannai
  3. Conway (1998), p. 119
  4. "The Lattice D6".
  5. Conway (1998), p. 120
  6. Conway (1998), p. 466
  • 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, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
  • Conway JH, Sloane NJH (1998). Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (3rd ed.). ISBN 0-387-98585-9.
Space Family / /
E2 Uniform tiling {3[3]} δ3 hδ3 qδ3 Hexagonal
E3 Uniform convex honeycomb {3[4]} δ4 hδ4 qδ4
E4 Uniform 4-honeycomb {3[5]} δ5 hδ5 qδ5 24-cell honeycomb
E5 Uniform 5-honeycomb {3[6]} δ6 hδ6 qδ6
E6 Uniform 6-honeycomb {3[7]} δ7 hδ7 qδ7 222
E7 Uniform 7-honeycomb {3[8]} δ8 hδ8 qδ8 133331
E8 Uniform 8-honeycomb {3[9]} δ9 hδ9 qδ9 152251521
E9 Uniform 9-honeycomb {3[10]} δ10 hδ10 qδ10
E10 Uniform 10-honeycomb {3[11]} δ11 hδ11 qδ11
En-1 Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb {3[n]} δn hδn qδn 1k22k1k21
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