Regular hendecaxennon (10-simplex) |
Orthogonal projection inside Petrie polygonIn geometry, a Petrie polygon for a regular polytope of n dimensions is a skew polygon such that every consecutive sides belong to one of the facets...
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| Type |
Regular 10-polytopeIn ten-dimensional geometry, a 10-polytope is a 10 dimensional polytope contained by 9-polytope facets. Each 8-polytope ridge being shared by exactly two 9-polytope facets....
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| Family |
simplexIn geometry, a simplex is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimension. Specifically, an n-simplex is an n-dimensional polytope which is the convex hull of its n + 1 vertices. For example, a 2-simplex is a triangle, a 3-simplex is a tetrahedron,...
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| Schläfli symbol |
{3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3} |
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagram In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is a graph with numerically labeled edges representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors...
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| 9-faces |
11 9-simplex |
| 8-faces |
55 8-simplex |
| 7-faces |
165 7-simplex |
| 6-faces |
330 6-simplex |
| 5-faces |
462 5-simplex |
| 4-faces |
462 5-cell |
| Cells |
330 tetrahedronIn geometry, a tetrahedron is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. A regular tetrahedron is one in which the four triangles are regular, or "equilateral", and is one of the Platonic solids...
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| Faces |
165 triangleA triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted ....
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| Edges |
55 |
| Vertices |
11 |
| Vertex figure In geometry a vertex figure is, broadly speaking, the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.-Definitions - theme and variations:...
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9-simplex |
Petrie polygonIn geometry, a Petrie polygon for a regular polytope of n dimensions is a skew polygon such that every consecutive sides belong to one of the facets...
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hendecagon In geometry, a hendecagon is an 11-sided polygon....
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| Coxeter group In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H.S.M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of mirror symmetries. Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean reflection groups; the symmetry groups of regular polyhedra are an example...
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A10 [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3] |
| Dual |
Self-dual |
| Properties |
convex A convex polytope is a special case of a polytope, having the additional property that it is also a convex set of points in the n-dimensional space Rn...
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In
geometryGeometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
, a 10-
simplexIn geometry, a simplex is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimension. Specifically, an n-simplex is an n-dimensional polytope which is the convex hull of its n + 1 vertices. For example, a 2-simplex is a triangle, a 3-simplex is a tetrahedron,...
is a self-dual
regularIn mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry is transitive on its flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. All its elements or j-faces — cells, faces and so on — are also transitive on the symmetries of the polytope, and are regular polytopes of...
10-polytopeIn ten-dimensional geometry, a 10-polytope is a 10 dimensional polytope contained by 9-polytope facets. Each 8-polytope ridge being shared by exactly two 9-polytope facets....
. It has 11
verticesIn geometry, a vertex is a special kind of point that describes the corners or intersections of geometric shapes.-Of an angle:...
, 55
edgeIn geometry, an edge is a one-dimensional line segment joining two adjacent zero-dimensional vertices in a polygon. Thus applied, an edge is a connector for a one-dimensional line segment and two zero-dimensional objects....
s, 165 triangle
facesIn geometry, a face of a polyhedron is any of the polygons that make up its boundaries. For example, any of the squares that bound a cube is a face of the cube...
, 330 tetrahedral cells, 462 5-cell 4-faces, 462 5-simplex 5-faces, 330 6-simplex 6-faces, 165 7-simplex 7-faces, 55 8-simplex 8-faces, and 11 9-simplex 9-faces. Its
dihedral angleIn geometry, a dihedral or torsion angle is the angle between two planes.The dihedral angle of two planes can be seen by looking at the planes "edge on", i.e., along their line of intersection...
is cos
−1(1/10), or approximately 84.26°.
It can also be called a
hendecaxennon, or
hendeca-10-tope, as a 11-facetted polytope in 10-dimensions. The name
hendecaxennon is derived from
hendeca for 11
facetsA facet of a simplicial complex is a maximal simplex.In the general theory of polyhedra and polytopes, two conflicting meanings are currently jostling for acceptability:...
in
GreekGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
and -xenn (variation of ennea for nine), having 9-dimensional facets, and
-on.
Coordinates
The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of an origin-centered regular 10-simplex having edge length 2 are:









More simply, the vertices of the
10-simplex can be positioned in 10-space as permutations of (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1). This construction is based on facets of the 11-orthoplex.
Related polytopes
The
2-skeletonIn mathematics, particularly in algebraic topology, the n-skeleton of a topological space X presented as a simplicial complex refers to the subspace Xn that is the union of the simplices of X of dimensions m ≤ n...
of the 10-simplex is topologically related to the
11-cellIn mathematics, the 11-cell is a self-dual abstract regular 4-polytope . Its 11 cells are hemi-icosahedral. It has 11 vertices, 55 edges and 55 faces. Its symmetry group is the projective special linear group L2, so it has660 symmetries...
abstract regular polychoronIn mathematics, an abstract polytope, informally speaking, is a structure which considers only the combinatorial properties of a traditional polytope, ignoring many of its other properties, such as angles, edge lengths, etc...
which has the same 11 vertices, 55 edges, but only 1/3 the faces (55).
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