Truncated 6-cubes
In six-dimensional geometry, a truncated 6-cube (or truncated hexeract) is a convex uniform 6-polytope, being a truncation of the regular 6-cube.
|  6-cube            |  Truncated 6-cube            |  Bitruncated 6-cube            |  Tritruncated 6-cube            | 
|  6-orthoplex            |  Truncated 6-orthoplex            |  Bitruncated 6-orthoplex            | |
| Orthogonal projections in B6 Coxeter plane | |||
|---|---|---|---|
There are 5 truncations for the 6-cube. Vertices of the truncated 6-cube are located as pairs on the edge of the 6-cube. Vertices of the bitruncated 6-cube are located on the square faces of the 6-cube. Vertices of the tritruncated 6-cube are located inside the cubic cells of the 6-cube.
Truncated 6-cube
    
| Truncated 6-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 6-polytope | 
| Class | B6 polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | t{4,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |            | 
| 5-faces | 76 | 
| 4-faces | 464 | 
| Cells | 1120 | 
| Faces | 1520 | 
| Edges | 1152 | 
| Vertices | 384 | 
| Vertex figure |  ( )v{3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B6, [3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Truncated hexeract (Acronym: tox) (Jonathan Bowers)[1]
Construction and coordinates
    
The truncated 6-cube may be constructed by truncating the vertices of the 6-cube at of the edge length. A regular 5-simplex replaces each original vertex.
The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a truncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:
Images
    
| Coxeter plane | B6 | B5 | B4 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Graph |  |  |  | 
| Dihedral symmetry | [12] | [10] | [8] | 
| Coxeter plane | B3 | B2 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | |
| Coxeter plane | A5 | A3 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | 
Related polytopes
    
The truncated 6-cube, is fifth in a sequence of truncated hypercubes:
| Image |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | ... | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Octagon | Truncated cube | Truncated tesseract | Truncated 5-cube | Truncated 6-cube | Truncated 7-cube | Truncated 8-cube | |
| Coxeter diagram |    |      |        |          |            |              |                | |
| Vertex figure | ( )v( ) |  ( )v{ } |  ( )v{3} |  ( )v{3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3,3,3} | 
Bitruncated 6-cube
    
| Bitruncated 6-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 6-polytope | 
| Class | B6 polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | 2t{4,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |            | 
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure |  { }v{3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B6, [3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Bitruncated hexeract (Acronym: botox) (Jonathan Bowers)[2]
Construction and coordinates
    
The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a bitruncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:
Images
    
| Coxeter plane | B6 | B5 | B4 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Graph |  |  |  | 
| Dihedral symmetry | [12] | [10] | [8] | 
| Coxeter plane | B3 | B2 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | |
| Coxeter plane | A5 | A3 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | 
Related polytopes
    
The bitruncated 6-cube is fourth in a sequence of bitruncated hypercubes:
| Image |   |   |   |   |   |   | ... | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Bitruncated cube | Bitruncated tesseract | Bitruncated 5-cube | Bitruncated 6-cube | Bitruncated 7-cube | Bitruncated 8-cube | |
| Coxeter |      |        |          |            |              |                | |
| Vertex figure |  ( )v{ } |  { }v{ } |  { }v{3} |  { }v{3,3} | { }v{3,3,3} | { }v{3,3,3,3} | 
Tritruncated 6-cube
    
| Tritruncated 6-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 6-polytope | 
| Class | B6 polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | 3t{4,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |            | 
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure |  {3}v{4} | 
| Coxeter groups | B6, [3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Tritruncated hexeract (Acronym: xog) (Jonathan Bowers)[3]
Construction and coordinates
    
The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a tritruncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:
Images
    
| Coxeter plane | B6 | B5 | B4 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Graph |  |  |  | 
| Dihedral symmetry | [12] | [10] | [8] | 
| Coxeter plane | B3 | B2 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | |
| Coxeter plane | A5 | A3 | |
| Graph |  |  | |
| Dihedral symmetry | [6] | [4] | 
Related polytopes
    
| Dim. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | n | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | t{4} | r{4,3} | 2t{4,3,3} | 2r{4,3,3,3} | 3t{4,3,3,3,3} | 3r{4,3,3,3,3,3} | 4t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3} | ... | 
| Coxeter diagram |   |    |    |      |      |        |        | |
| Images |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | |
| Facets | {3}  {4}  | t{3,3}  t{3,4}  | r{3,3,3}  r{3,3,4}  | 2t{3,3,3,3}  2t{3,3,3,4}  | 2r{3,3,3,3,3}  2r{3,3,3,3,4}  | 3t{3,3,3,3,3,3}  3t{3,3,3,3,3,4}  | ||
| Vertex figure | ( )v( ) |  { }×{ } |  { }v{ } |  {3}×{4} |  {3}v{4} | {3,3}×{3,4} | {3,3}v{3,4} | 
Related polytopes
    
These polytopes are from a set of 63 Uniform 6-polytopes generated from the B6 Coxeter plane, including the regular 6-cube or 6-orthoplex.
Notes
    
- Klitzing, (o3o3o3o3x4x - tox)
- Klitzing, (o3o3o3x3x4o - botox)
- Klitzing, (o3o3x3x3o4o - xog)
References
    
- H.S.M. Coxeter: 
- H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd Edition, Dover New York, 1973
- Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 
- (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10]
- (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559-591]
- (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
 
 
- Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D.
 
- Klitzing, Richard. "6D uniform polytopes (polypeta)". o3o3o3o3x4x - tox, o3o3o3x3x4o - botox, o3o3x3x3o4o - xog
External links
    
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Hypercube". MathWorld.
- Polytopes of Various Dimensions
- Multi-dimensional Glossary






















































