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, a uniform 4-polytope (or uniform polychoron) is a 4-dimensional
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which is
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and whose cells are
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, and faces are
regular polygon In Euclidean geometry, a regular polygon is a polygon that is Equiangular polygon, direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and Equilateral polygon, equilateral (all sides have the same length). Regular polygons may be either ''convex ...
s. There are 47 non-
prismatic An optical prism is a transparent optics, optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refraction, refract light. At least one surface must be angled—elements with two parallel surfaces are ''not'' prisms. The most fami ...
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uniform 4-polytopes. There are two infinite sets of convex prismatic forms, along with 17 cases arising as prisms of the convex uniform polyhedra. There are also an unknown number of non-convex star forms.


History of discovery

* Convex
Regular polytope In mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry group acts transitive group action, transitively on its flag (geometry), flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. In particular, all its elements or -faces (for all , w ...
s: ** 1852:
Ludwig Schläfli Ludwig Schläfli (; 15 January 1814 – 20 March 1895) was a Swiss mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spac ...
proved in his manuscript ''Theorie der vielfachen Kontinuität'' that there are exactly 6 regular polytopes in 4
dimension In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus, a line has a dimension of one (1D) because only one coo ...
s and only 3 in 5 or more dimensions. * Regular star 4-polytopes (
star polyhedron In geometry, a star polyhedron is a polyhedron which has some repetitive quality of nonconvex polygon, nonconvexity giving it a star-like visual quality. There are two general kinds of star polyhedron: *Polyhedra which self-intersect in a repetit ...
cells and/or
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a general -polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connected ed ...
s) ** 1852:
Ludwig Schläfli Ludwig Schläfli (; 15 January 1814 – 20 March 1895) was a Swiss mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spac ...
also found 4 of the 10 regular star 4-polytopes, discounting 6 with cells or vertex figures and . ** 1883:
Edmund Hess Edmund Hess (17 February 1843 – 24 December 1903) was a German mathematician who discovered several regular polytopes. Publications *''Über die zugleich gleicheckigen und gleichflächigen Polyeder.'' In: Sitzungsberichte der Gesellscha ...
completed the list of 10 of the nonconvex regular 4-polytopes, in his book (in German) ''Einleitung in die Lehre von der Kugelteilung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendung auf die Theorie der Gleichflächigen und der gleicheckigen Polyeder'
Einleitung in die Lehre von der Kugelteilung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendung auf die Theorie der Gleichflächigen und der gleicheckigen Polyeder, von dr. Edmund Hess. Mit sechzehn lithographierten tafeln.
* Convex
semiregular polytope In geometry, by Thorold Gosset's definition a semiregular polytope is usually taken to be a polytope that is vertex-transitive and has all its facets being regular polytopes. E.L. Elte compiled a longer list in 1912 as ''The Semiregular Polyto ...
s: (Various definitions before Coxeter's uniform category) ** 1900:
Thorold Gosset John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset (16 October 1869 – December 1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher, a ...
enumerated the list of nonprismatic semiregular convex polytopes with regular cells (
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s) in his publication ''On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions''. In four dimensions, this gives the
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 ...
, the
rectified 600-cell In geometry, the Rectification (geometry), rectified 600-cell or rectified hexacosichoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 600 regular octahedra and 120 icosahedra cell (mathematics), cells. Each edge has two octahedra and one icosahedron ...
, and the
snub 24-cell In geometry, the snub 24-cell or snub disicositetrachoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 120 regular Tetrahedron, tetrahedral and 24 Regular icosahedron, icosahedral cell (mathematics), cells. Five tetrahedra and three icosahedra meet ...
. ** 1910:
Alicia Boole Stott Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was a British mathematician. She made a number of contributions to the field and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. She grasped four-dimensional geometry from ...
, in her publication ''Geometrical deduction of semiregular from regular polytopes and space fillings'', expanded the definition by also allowing
Archimedean solid The Archimedean solids are a set of thirteen convex polyhedra whose faces are regular polygon and are vertex-transitive, although they aren't face-transitive. The solids were named after Archimedes, although he did not claim credit for them. They ...
and
prism PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet ...
cells. This construction enumerated 45 semiregular 4-polytopes, corresponding to the nonprismatic forms listed below. The snub 24-cell and
grand antiprism In geometry, the grand antiprism or pentagonal double antiprismoid is a uniform 4-polytope (4-dimensional uniform polytope) bounded by 320 cells: 20 pentagonal antiprisms, and 300 tetrahedra. It is an anomalous, non-Wythoffian uniform 4-polyto ...
were missing from her list. ** 1911:
Pieter Hendrik Schoute Pieter Hendrik Schoute (21 January 1846, Wormerveer – 18 April 1913, Groningen) was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to anci ...
published ''Analytic treatment of the polytopes regularly derived from the regular polytopes'', followed Boole-Stott's notations, enumerating the convex uniform polytopes by symmetry based on
5-cell In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional space, four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, hypertetrahedron, pentachoron, pentatope, pe ...
,
8-cell In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional space, four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square (geometry), square and a three-dimensional cube. Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and ...
/
16-cell In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the ...
, and
24-cell In four-dimensional space, four-dimensional geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octa ...
. ** 1912:
E. L. Elte Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (16 March 1881 in Amsterdam – 9 April 1943 in Sobibór) Emanuël Lodewijk Elte
...
independently expanded on Gosset's list with the publication ''The Semiregular Polytopes of the Hyperspaces'', polytopes with one or two types of semiregular facets. * Convex uniform polytopes: **1940: The search was expanded systematically by
H.S.M. Coxeter Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Coxeter was born in England and educated ...
in his publication ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes''. ** Convex uniform 4-polytopes: ***1965: The complete list of convex forms was finally enumerated by
John Horton Conway John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many b ...
and
Michael Guy Michael J. T. Guy (born 1 April 1943) is a British computer scientist and mathematician. He is known for early work on computer systems, such as the Phoenix system at the University of Cambridge, and for contributions to number theory, computer ...
, in their publication ''Four-Dimensional Archimedean Polytopes'', established by computer analysis, adding only one non-Wythoffian convex 4-polytope, the grand antiprism. *** 1966 Norman Johnson completes his Ph.D. dissertation ''The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs'' under advisor Coxeter, completes the basic theory of uniform polytopes for dimensions 4 and higher. *** 1986 Coxeter published a paper ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II'' which included analysis of the unique
snub 24-cell In geometry, the snub 24-cell or snub disicositetrachoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 120 regular Tetrahedron, tetrahedral and 24 Regular icosahedron, icosahedral cell (mathematics), cells. Five tetrahedra and three icosahedra meet ...
structure, and the symmetry of the anomalous grand antiprism. *** 1998-2000: The 4-polytopes were systematically named by Norman Johnson, and given by George Olshevsky's online indexed enumeration (used as a basis for this listing). Johnson named the 4-polytopes as polychora, like polyhedra for 3-polytopes, from the
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roots ''poly'' ("many") and ''choros'' ("room" or "space"). The names of the uniform polychora started with the 6 regular polychora with prefixes based on rings in the Coxeter diagrams; truncation t0,1, cantellation, t0,2, runcination t0,3, with single ringed forms called rectified, and bi, tri-prefixes added when the first ring was on the second or third nodes.Johnson (2015), Chapter 11, section 11.5 Spherical Coxeter groups, 11.5.5 ''full polychoric groups'' *** 2004: A proof that the Conway-Guy set is complete was published by Marco Möller in his dissertation, ''Vierdimensionale Archimedische Polytope''. Möller reproduced Johnson's naming system in his listing. *** 2008: ''The Symmetries of Things'' was published by John H. Conway and contains the first print-published listing of the convex uniform 4-polytopes and higher dimensional polytopes by Coxeter group family, with general
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a general -polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connected ed ...
diagrams for each ringed
Coxeter diagram Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Coxeter was born in England and educated ...
permutation—snub, grand antiprism, and duoprisms—which he called proprisms for product prisms. He used his own ''ijk''-ambo naming scheme for the indexed ring permutations beyond truncation and bitruncation, and all of Johnson's names were included in the book index. * Nonregular uniform star 4-polytopes: (similar to the nonconvex uniform polyhedra) **1966: Johnson describes three nonconvex uniform antiprisms in 4-space in his dissertation. **1990-2006: In a collaborative search, up to 2005 a total of 1845 uniform 4-polytopes (convex and nonconvex) had been identified by Jonathan Bowers and George Olshevsky, with an additional four discovered in 2006 for a total of 1849. The count includes the 74 prisms of the 75 non-prismatic uniform polyhedra (since that is a finite set – the cubic prism is excluded as it duplicates the tesseract), but not the infinite categories of duoprisms or prisms of antiprisms. **2020-2023: 342 new polychora were found, bringing up the total number of known uniform 4-polytopes to 2191. The list has not been proven complete.


Regular 4-polytopes

Regular 4-polytopes are a subset of the uniform 4-polytopes, which satisfy additional requirements.
Regular 4-polytopes In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope or regular polychoron is a regular polytope, regular 4-polytope, four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the Regular polyhedron, regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regul ...
can be expressed with
Schläfli symbol In geometry, the Schläfli symbol is a notation of the form \ that defines List of regular polytopes and compounds, regular polytopes and tessellations. The Schläfli symbol is named after the 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli, wh ...
have cells of type , faces of type , edge figures , and
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a general -polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connected ed ...
s . The existence of a regular 4-polytope is constrained by the existence of the regular polyhedra which becomes cells, and which becomes the
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a general -polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connected ed ...
. Existence as a finite 4-polytope is dependent upon an inequality: :\sin \left ( \frac \right ) \sin \left(\frac\right) > \cos\left(\frac\right). The 16
regular 4-polytopes In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope or regular polychoron is a regular polytope, regular 4-polytope, four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the Regular polyhedron, regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regul ...
, with the property that all cells, faces, edges, and vertices are congruent: * 6
regular convex 4-polytope In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope or regular polychoron is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions. There are six co ...
s:
5-cell In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional space, four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, hypertetrahedron, pentachoron, pentatope, pe ...
,
8-cell In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional space, four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square (geometry), square and a three-dimensional cube. Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and ...
,
16-cell In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the ...
,
24-cell In four-dimensional space, four-dimensional geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octa ...
,
120-cell In geometry, the 120-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called a C120, dodecaplex (short for "dodecahedral complex"), hyperdodecahedron, polydodecahedron, hec ...
, and
600-cell In geometry, the 600-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also known as the C600, hexacosichoron and hexacosihedroid. It is also called a tetraplex (abbreviated from ...
. * 10
regular star 4-polytope In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope or regular polychoron is a regular polytope, regular 4-polytope, four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the Regular polyhedron, regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regul ...
s: icosahedral 120-cell ,
small stellated 120-cell Small means of insignificant size. Small may also refer to: Science and technology * SMALL, an ALGOL-like programming language * ''Small'' (journal), a nano-science publication * <small>, an HTML element that defines smaller text Arts and ...
,
great 120-cell In geometry, the great 120-cell or great polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is one of the two such polytopes that is self-dual. Related polytopes It has t ...
, grand 120-cell ,
great stellated 120-cell In geometry, the great stellated 120-cell or great stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' discovered by L ...
,
grand stellated 120-cell In geometry, the grand stellated 120-cell or grand stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is also one of two such polytopes that is self-dual. Relat ...
, great grand 120-cell ,
great icosahedral 120-cell In geometry, the great icosahedral 120-cell, great polyicosahedron or great faceting, faceted 600-cell is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. Related polytopes It has the same edge ...
,
grand 600-cell In geometry, the grand 600-cell or grand polytetrahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is the only one with 600 cells. It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' di ...
, and great grand stellated 120-cell .


Convex uniform 4-polytopes


Symmetry of uniform 4-polytopes in four dimensions

There are 5 fundamental mirror symmetry
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families in 4-dimensions: A4 = , B4 = , D4 = , F4 = , H4 = . There are also 3 prismatic groups A3A1 = , B3A1 = , H3A1 = , and duoprismatic groups: I2(p)×I2(q) = . Each group defined by a
Goursat tetrahedron In geometry, a Goursat tetrahedron is a tetrahedron, tetrahedral fundamental domain of a Wythoff construction. Each tetrahedral face represents a reflection hyperplane on 3-dimensional surfaces: the 3-sphere, Euclidean 3-space, and hyperbolic 3-spa ...
fundamental domain Given a topological space and a group acting on it, the images of a single point under the group action form an orbit of the action. A fundamental domain or fundamental region is a subset of the space which contains exactly one point from each ...
bounded by mirror planes. Each reflective uniform 4-polytope can be constructed in one or more reflective point group in 4 dimensions by a
Wythoff construction In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction. Construction process ...
, represented by rings around permutations of nodes in a
Coxeter diagram Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Coxeter was born in England and educated ...
. Mirror
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s can be grouped, as seen by colored nodes, separated by even-branches. Symmetry groups of the form ,b,a have an extended symmetry, a,b,a, doubling the symmetry order. This includes ,3,3 ,4,3 and 'p'',2,''p'' Uniform polytopes in these group with symmetric rings contain this extended symmetry. If all mirrors of a given color are unringed (inactive) in a given uniform polytope, it will have a lower symmetry construction by removing all of the inactive mirrors. If all the nodes of a given color are ringed (active), an alternation operation can generate a new 4-polytope with chiral symmetry, shown as "empty" circled nodes", but the geometry is not generally adjustable to create uniform solutions.


Enumeration

There are 64 convex uniform 4-polytopes, including the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes, and excluding the infinite sets of the
duoprism In geometry of 4 dimensions or higher, a double prism or duoprism is a polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes, each of two dimensions or higher. The Cartesian product of an -polytope and an -polytope is an -polytope, wher ...
s and the antiprismatic prisms. * 5 are polyhedral prisms based on the
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s (1 overlap with regular since a cubic hyperprism is a
tesseract In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square and a three-dimensional cube. Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and the surface of the cube consists of six ...
) * 13 are polyhedral prisms based on the
Archimedean solid The Archimedean solids are a set of thirteen convex polyhedra whose faces are regular polygon and are vertex-transitive, although they aren't face-transitive. The solids were named after Archimedes, although he did not claim credit for them. They ...
s * 9 are in the self-dual regular A4 ,3,3group (
5-cell In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional space, four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, hypertetrahedron, pentachoron, pentatope, pe ...
) family. * 9 are in the self-dual regular F4 ,4,3group (
24-cell In four-dimensional space, four-dimensional geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octa ...
) family. (Excluding snub 24-cell) * 15 are in the regular B4 ,3,4group (
tesseract In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square and a three-dimensional cube. Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and the surface of the cube consists of six ...
/
16-cell In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the ...
) family (3 overlap with 24-cell family) * 15 are in the regular H4 ,3,5group (
120-cell In geometry, the 120-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called a C120, dodecaplex (short for "dodecahedral complex"), hyperdodecahedron, polydodecahedron, hec ...
/
600-cell In geometry, the 600-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also known as the C600, hexacosichoron and hexacosihedroid. It is also called a tetraplex (abbreviated from ...
) family. * 1 special snub form in the ,4,3group (
24-cell In four-dimensional space, four-dimensional geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octa ...
) family. * 1 special non-Wythoffian 4-polytope, the grand antiprism. * TOTAL: 68 − 4 = 64 These 64 uniform 4-polytopes are indexed below by George Olshevsky. Repeated symmetry forms are indexed in brackets. In addition to the 64 above, there are 2 infinite prismatic sets that generate all of the remaining convex forms: * Set of
uniform antiprismatic prism In 4-dimensional geometry, a uniform antiprismatic prism or antiduoprism is a uniform 4-polytope with two Antiprism, uniform antiprism cells in two parallel 3-space hyperplanes, connected by Prism (geometry), uniform prisms cells between pairs of ...
s - sr× - Polyhedral prisms of two
antiprisms In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation . Antiprisms are a subclass ...
. * Set of uniform
duoprism In geometry of 4 dimensions or higher, a double prism or duoprism is a polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes, each of two dimensions or higher. The Cartesian product of an -polytope and an -polytope is an -polytope, wher ...
s - × - A
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of two polygons.


The A4 family

The 5-cell has ''diploid pentachoric'' ,3,3symmetry, of
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120, isomorphic to the permutations of five elements, because all pairs of vertices are related in the same way. Facets (cells) are given, grouped in their Coxeter diagram locations by removing specified nodes. The three uniform 4-polytopes forms marked with an
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, *, have the higher extended pentachoric symmetry, of order 240, because the element corresponding to any element of the underlying 5-cell can be exchanged with one of those corresponding to an element of its dual. There is one small index subgroup ,3,3sup>+, order 60, or its doubling +, order 120, defining an
omnisnub 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 (geometry), face-planing) of the regular 5-cell. There are 3 unique degrees of runcinations of the 5-cell, i ...
which is listed for completeness, but is not uniform.


The B4 family

This family has ''diploid hexadecachoric'' symmetry, ,3,3 of
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24×16=384: 4!=24 permutations of the four axes, 24=16 for reflection in each axis. There are 3 small index subgroups, with the first two generate uniform 4-polytopes which are also repeated in other families, +,4,3,3 ,(3,3)+ and ,3,3sup>+, all order 192.


Tesseract truncations


16-cell truncations

:(*) Just as rectifying the
tetrahedron In geometry, a tetrahedron (: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular Face (geometry), faces, six straight Edge (geometry), edges, and four vertex (geometry), vertices. The tet ...
produces the
octahedron In geometry, an octahedron (: octahedra or octahedrons) is any polyhedron with eight faces. One special case is the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex. Many types of i ...
, rectifying the 16-cell produces the 24-cell, the regular member of the following family. The ''snub 24-cell'' is repeat to this family for completeness. It is an alternation of the ''cantitruncated 16-cell'' or ''truncated 24-cell'', with the half symmetry group 3,3)+,4 The truncated octahedral cells become icosahedra. The cubes becomes tetrahedra, and 96 new tetrahedra are created in the gaps from the removed vertices.


The F4 family

This family has ''diploid icositetrachoric'' symmetry, ,4,3 of
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24×48=1152: the 48 symmetries of the octahedron for each of the 24 cells. There are 3 small index subgroups, with the first two isomorphic pairs generating uniform 4-polytopes which are also repeated in other families, +,4,3 ,4,3+ and ,4,3sup>+, all order 576. : (†) The snub 24-cell here, despite its common name, is not analogous to the
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; rather, it is derived by an alternation of the truncated 24-cell. Its
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is only 576, (the ''ionic diminished icositetrachoric'' group, +,4,3. Like the 5-cell, the 24-cell is self-dual, and so the following three forms have twice as many symmetries, bringing their total to 2304 ( extended icositetrachoric symmetry ).


The H4 family

This family has ''diploid hexacosichoric'' symmetry, ,3,3 of
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120×120=24×600=14400: 120 for each of the 120 dodecahedra, or 24 for each of the 600 tetrahedra. There is one small index subgroups ,3,3sup>+, all order 7200.


120-cell truncations


600-cell truncations


The D4 family

This demitesseract family, 1,1,1 introduces no new uniform 4-polytopes, but it is worthy to repeat these alternative constructions. This family has
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12×16=192: 4!/2=12 permutations of the four axes, half as alternated, 24=16 for reflection in each axis. There is one small index subgroups that generating uniform 4-polytopes, 1,1,1sup>+, order 96. When the 3 bifurcated branch nodes are identically ringed, the symmetry can be increased by 6, as [31,1,1 = ,4,3 and thus these polytopes are repeated from the
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family. Here again the ''snub 24-cell'', with the symmetry group 1,1,1sup>+ this time, represents an alternated truncation of the truncated 24-cell creating 96 new tetrahedra at the position of the deleted vertices. In contrast to its appearance within former groups as partly snubbed 4-polytope, only within this symmetry group it has the full analogy to the Kepler snubs, i.e. the
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and the snub dodecahedron.


The grand antiprism

There is one non-Wythoffian uniform convex 4-polytope, known as the
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, consisting of 20
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s forming two perpendicular rings joined by 300
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. It is loosely analogous to the three-dimensional
antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two Parallel (geometry), parallel Euclidean group, direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway po ...
s, which consist of two parallel
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s joined by a band of
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s. Unlike them, however, the grand antiprism is not a member of an infinite family of uniform polytopes. Its symmetry is the ''ionic diminished Coxeter group'', 10,2+,10, order 400.


Prismatic uniform 4-polytopes

A prismatic polytope is a
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of two polytopes of lower dimension; familiar examples are the 3-dimensional prisms, which are products of a
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and a
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. The prismatic uniform 4-polytopes consist of two infinite families: * ''Polyhedral prisms'': products of a line segment and a uniform polyhedron. This family is infinite because it includes prisms built on 3-dimensional prisms and
antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two Parallel (geometry), parallel Euclidean group, direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway po ...
s. * ''Duoprisms'': products of two polygons.


Convex polyhedral prisms

The most obvious family of prismatic 4-polytopes is the ''polyhedral prisms,'' i.e. products of a polyhedron with a
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. The cells of such a 4-polytopes are two identical uniform polyhedra lying in parallel
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s (the ''base'' cells) and a layer of prisms joining them (the ''lateral'' cells). This family includes prisms for the 75 nonprismatic
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(of which 18 are convex; one of these, the cube-prism, is listed above as the ''tesseract''). There are ''18 convex polyhedral prisms'' created from 5
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s and 13
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s as well as for the infinite families of three-dimensional
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s and
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s. The symmetry number of a polyhedral prism is twice that of the base polyhedron.


Tetrahedral prisms: A3 × A1

This prismatic tetrahedral symmetry is ,3,2 order 48. There are two index 2 subgroups, 3,3)+,2and ,3,2sup>+, but the second doesn't generate a uniform 4-polytope.


Octahedral prisms: B3 × A1

This prismatic octahedral family symmetry is ,3,2 order 96. There are 6 subgroups of index 2, order 48 that are expressed in alternated 4-polytopes below.
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are 4,3)+,2 +,4,3,2 ,3,2+ ,3+,2 ,(3,2)+ and ,3,2sup>+.


Icosahedral prisms: H3 × A1

This prismatic icosahedral symmetry is ,3,2 order 240. There are two index 2 subgroups, 5,3)+,2and ,3,2sup>+, but the second doesn't generate a uniform polychoron.


Duoprisms: ×

The second is the infinite family of uniform duoprisms, products of two
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s. A duoprism's Coxeter-Dynkin diagram is . Its
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is a
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, . This family overlaps with the first: when one of the two "factor" polygons is a square, the product is equivalent to a hyperprism whose base is a three-dimensional prism. The symmetry number of a duoprism whose factors are a ''p''-gon and a ''q''-gon (a "''p,q''-duoprism") is 4''pq'' if ''p''≠''q''; if the factors are both ''p''-gons, the symmetry number is 8''p''2. The tesseract can also be considered a 4,4-duoprism. The extended
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of × is (''p'',''p'',1)*(''q'',''q'',1) = (''pq'',2''pq'',''pq''+''p''+''q'',''p''+''q''). * Cells: ''p'' ''q''-gonal prisms, ''q'' ''p''-gonal prisms * Faces: ''pq'' squares, ''p'' ''q''-gons, ''q'' ''p''-gons * Edges: ''2pq'' * Vertices: ''pq'' There is no uniform analogue in four dimensions to the infinite family of three-dimensional
antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two Parallel (geometry), parallel Euclidean group, direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway po ...
s. Infinite set of ''p-q duoprism'' - - p ''q''-gonal prisms, q ''p''-gonal prisms: Alternations are possible. = gives the family of ''duoantiprisms'', but they generally cannot be made uniform. p=q=2 is the only ''convex'' case that can be made uniform, giving the regular 16-cell. p=5, q=5/3 is the only nonconvex case that can be made uniform, giving the so-called great duoantiprism. gives the p-2q-gonal ''prismantiprismoid'' (an edge-alternation of the 2p-4q duoprism), but this cannot be made uniform in any cases.


Polygonal prismatic prisms: × ×

The infinite set of uniform prismatic prisms overlaps with the 4-p duoprisms: (p≥3) - - ''p'' cubes and 4 ''p''-gonal prisms - (All are the same as 4-p duoprism) The second polytope in the series is a lower symmetry of the regular
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, ×.


Polygonal antiprismatic prisms: × ×

The infinite sets of ''
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s'' are constructed from two parallel uniform
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s): (p≥2) - - 2 ''p''-gonal antiprisms, connected by 2 ''p''-gonal prisms and ''2p'' triangular prisms. A ''p-gonal antiprismatic prism'' has ''4p'' triangle, ''4p'' square and ''4'' p-gon faces. It has ''10p'' edges, and ''4p'' vertices.


Nonuniform alternations

Coxeter showed only two uniform solutions for rank 4 Coxeter groups with all rings alternated (shown with empty circle nodes). The first is , s which represented an index 24 subgroup (
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sup>+, order 8) form of the
demitesseract In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the ...
, , h (symmetry +,4,3,3= 1,1,1 order 192). The second is , s, which is an index 6 subgroup (symmetry 1,1,1sup>+, order 96) form of the
snub 24-cell In geometry, the snub 24-cell or snub disicositetrachoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 120 regular Tetrahedron, tetrahedral and 24 Regular icosahedron, icosahedral cell (mathematics), cells. Five tetrahedra and three icosahedra meet ...
, , s, (symmetry +,4,3 order 576). Other alternations, such as , as an alternation from the
omnitruncated tesseract In four-dimensional geometry, a runcinated tesseract (or ''runcinated 16-cell'') is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a runcination (a 3rd order truncation) of the regular tesseract. There are 4 variations of runcinations of the tesseract includi ...
, can not be made uniform as solving for equal edge lengths are in general overdetermined (there are six equations but only four variables). Such nonuniform alternated figures can be constructed as
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4-polytopes by the removal of one of two half sets of the vertices of the full ringed figure, but will have unequal edge lengths. Just like uniform alternations, they will have half of the symmetry of uniform figure, like ,3,3sup>+, order 192, is the symmetry of the ''alternated omnitruncated tesseract''. Wythoff constructions with alternations produce
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figures that can be made equilateral, but not uniform because the alternated gaps (around the removed vertices) create cells that are not regular or semiregular. A proposed name for such figures is scaliform polytopes. This category allows a subset of
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s as cells, for example
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. Each
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within a Johnson solid must exist within the vertex figure. For example, a square pyramid has two vertex configurations: 3.3.4 around the base, and 3.3.3.3 at the apex. The nets and vertex figures of the four convex equilateral cases are given below, along with a list of cells around each vertex.


Geometric derivations for 46 nonprismatic Wythoffian uniform polychora

The 46 Wythoffian 4-polytopes include the six
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s. The other forty can be derived from the regular polychora by geometric operations which preserve most or all of their
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, and therefore may be classified by the
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s that they have in common. The geometric operations that derive the 40 uniform 4-polytopes from the regular 4-polytopes are ''truncating'' operations. A 4-polytope may be truncated at the vertices, edges or faces, leading to addition of cells corresponding to those elements, as shown in the columns of the tables below. The '' Coxeter-Dynkin diagram'' shows the four mirrors of the Wythoffian kaleidoscope as nodes, and the edges between the nodes are labeled by an integer showing the angle between the mirrors ( π/''n''
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s or 180/''n'' degrees). Circled nodes show which mirrors are active for each form; a mirror is active with respect to a vertex that does not lie on it. See also
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s, some of which illustrate these operations as applied to the regular
cubic honeycomb The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cube, cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each verte ...
. If two polytopes are
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s of each other (such as the tesseract and 16-cell, or the 120-cell and 600-cell), then ''bitruncating'', ''runcinating'' or ''omnitruncating'' either produces the same figure as the same operation to the other. Thus where only the participle appears in the table it should be understood to apply to either parent.


Summary of constructions by extended symmetry

The 46 uniform polychora constructed from the A4, B4, F4, H4 symmetry are given in this table by their full extended symmetry and Coxeter diagrams. The D4 symmetry is also included, though it only creates duplicates. Alternations are grouped by their chiral symmetry. All alternations are given, although the
snub 24-cell In geometry, the snub 24-cell or snub disicositetrachoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 120 regular Tetrahedron, tetrahedral and 24 Regular icosahedron, icosahedral cell (mathematics), cells. Five tetrahedra and three icosahedra meet ...
, with its 3 constructions from different families is the only one that is uniform. Counts in parentheses are either repeats or nonuniform. The Coxeter diagrams are given with subscript indices 1 through 46. The 3-3 and 4-4 duoprismatic family is included, the second for its relation to the B4 family.


Uniform star polychora

Other than the aforementioned infinite duoprism and antiprism prism families, which have infinitely many nonconvex members, many uniform star polychora have been discovered. In 1852, Ludwig Schläfli discovered four ''regular'' star polychora: , , , and . In 1883, Edmund Hess found the other six: , , , , , and . Norman Johnson described three uniform antiprism-like star polychora in his doctoral dissertation of 1966: they are based on the three
ditrigonal polyhedra In geometry, there are seven uniform and uniform dual polyhedra named as ditrigonal. Ditrigonal vertex figures There are five uniform ditrigonal polyhedra, all with icosahedral symmetry.Har'El, 1993 The three uniform star polyhedron with Wythoff ...
sharing the edges and vertices of the regular dodecahedron. Many more have been found since then by other researchers, including Jonathan Bowers and George Olshevsky, creating a total count of 2127 known uniform star polychora at present (not counting the infinite set of duoprisms based on star polygons). There is currently no proof of the set's completeness.


See also

* Finite regular skew polyhedra of 4-space *
Convex uniform honeycomb In geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform polytope, uniform tessellation which fills three-dimensional Euclidean space with non-overlapping convex polyhedron, convex uniform polyhedron, uniform polyhedral cells. Twenty-eight such honey ...
- related infinite 4-polytopes in Euclidean 3-space. *
Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space In hyperbolic geometry, a uniform honeycomb in hyperbolic space is a uniform tessellation of uniform polyhedral cells. In 3-dimensional hyperbolic space there are nine Coxeter group families of compact convex uniform honeycombs, generated as W ...
- related infinite 4-polytopes in Hyperbolic 3-space. *
Paracompact uniform honeycombs In geometry, uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space are tessellations of convex uniform polyhedron cells. In 3-dimensional hyperbolic space there are 23 Coxeter group families of paracompact uniform honeycombs, generated as Wythoff constructions, ...


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External links

* Convex uniform 4-polytopes
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Marco Möller . Includes alternative names for these figures, including those from Jonathan Bowers, George Olshevsky, and Norman Johnson.

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