Mutetrahedral honeycomb

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Mutetrahedral honeycomb
Rank4
Dimension4
TypeRegular
Notation
Schläfli symbol
  • {{6,6∣3},{6,4}4}
Elements
Cellsmutetrahedra
Faceshexagons
Edges
Vertices
Edge figureTriangle
Abstract & topological properties
Flag count
Schläfli type{6,6,3}
OrientableYes
Properties
Flag orbits1
ConvexNo
Dimension vector(3,1,3,3)

The mutetrahedral honeycomb is a regular skew apeirochoron in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. Three mutetrahedra meet at every edge.

Just as the mutetrahedron is the κ 1  of the tetrahedron, the mutetrahedral honeycomb is the κ 1  of the 5-cell.

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

  • McMullen, Peter (2009), "Regular Apeirotopes of Dimension and Rank 4" (PDF), Discrete computational geometry, 42, doi:10.1007/s00454-009-9186-y