3-4 duoprism
In geometry of 4 dimensions, a 3-4 duoprism, the second smallest p-q duoprism, is a 4-polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of a triangle and a square.
Uniform 3-4 duoprisms  ![]() Schlegel diagrams  | |
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| Type | Prismatic uniform polychoron | 
| Schläfli symbol | {3}×{4} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagram | |
| Cells | 3 square prisms, 4 triangular prisms  | 
| Faces | 15 squares, 4 triangles  | 
| Edges | 24 | 
| Vertices | 12 | 
| Vertex figure | ![]() Digonal disphenoid  | 
| Symmetry | [3,2,4], order 48 | 
| Dual | 3-4 duopyramid | 
| Properties | convex, vertex-uniform | 
The 3-4 duoprism exists in some of the uniform 5-polytopes in the B5 family.
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Related complex polygons
    

Stereographic projection of complex polygon, 3{}×4{} has 12 vertices and 7 3-edges, shown here with 4 red triangular 3-edges and 3 blue square 4-edges.
The quasiregular complex polytope 3{}×4{}, ![]()
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, in  has a real representation as a 3-4 duoprism in 4-dimensional space. It has 12 vertices, and 4 3-edges and 3 4-edges. Its symmetry is 3[2]4, order 12.[1]
Related polytopes
    
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 has a uniform 3-4 duoprism vertex figure:
3-4 duopyramid
    
| 3-4 duopyramid | |
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| Type | duopyramid | 
| Schläfli symbol | {3}+{4} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagram | |
| Cells | 12 digonal disphenoids | 
| Faces | 24 isosceles triangles | 
| Edges | 19 (12+3+4) | 
| Vertices | 7 (3+4) | 
| Symmetry | [3,2,4], order 48 | 
| Dual | 3-4 duoprism | 
| Properties | convex, facet-transitive | 
The dual of a 3-4 duoprism is called a 3-4 duopyramid. It has 12 digonal disphenoid cells, 24 isosceles triangular faces, 12 edges, and 7 vertices.
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See also
    
    
Notes
    
- Coxeter, H. S. M.; Regular Complex Polytopes, Cambridge University Press, (1974).
 
References
    
- Regular Polytopes, H. S. M. Coxeter, Dover Publications, Inc., 1973, New York, p. 124.
 - Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-486-40919-8   (Chapter 5: Regular Skew Polyhedra in three and four dimensions and their topological analogues)
- Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Skew Polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions. Proc. London Math. Soc. 43, 33–62, 1937.
 
 - John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26)
 - Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1966
 
 - Catalogue of Convex Polychora, section 6, George Olshevsky.
 
External links
    
- The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained—describes duoprisms as "double prisms" and duocylinders as "double cylinders"
 - Polygloss - glossary of higher-dimensional terms
 - Exploring Hyperspace with the Geometric Product
 
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