A family of uniform polytopes with symmetric shadows
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A family of uniform polytopes with symmetric shadows
zbMATH Open document ID: 0622.52007
DOI: 10.1007/BF00181318
author: B. Monson
published in: Geometriae Dedicata
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: \textit{H. S. M. Coxeter}'s paper ''The 600-cell \(\{\) 3,3,5\(\}\) as a shadow of \(4_{21}\), the \(E_ 8\) polytope'' [Math. Forsch. Oberwolfach, Tagungsber. 31 (1981)] stimulated the author to generalize the ideas used there. This paper mentioned above is an example of orthogonal projections from 2n-space to n-space. Therefore manipulating Coxeter diagrams with the help of Wythoff's construction, described e.g. by \textit{H. S. M. Coxeter} in ''Regular polytopes'', 2nd ed. (1963; Zbl 0118.359), 3rd ed. (1973), p. 86, 196, the author can provide a family of orthogonal projections of one uniform polytope onto another. After theoretical expositions there are presented a lot of interesting examples concerning uniform polytopes or honeycombs in Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The main theorem is the author's proposition (3.4) which makes assertions about the images of a special map concerning Coxeter graphs with some nodes ringed according to Wythoff's construction.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52Bxx
zbMATH DE Number: 4009231
zbMATH Keywords: Coxeter diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: Wythoff's construction
zbMATH Keywords: orthogonal projections
zbMATH Keywords: uniform polytopes
zbMATH Keywords: Coxeter graphs
reviewed by: Johannes Böhm
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00181318
OpenAlex ID: W1992848471
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