Rectified 5-orthoplexes

In five-dimensional geometry, a rectified 5-orthoplex is a convex uniform 5-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 5-orthoplex.

5-cube	Rectified 5-cube	Birectified 5-cube Birectified 5-orthoplex
5-orthoplex	Rectified 5-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in A5 Coxeter plane

There are 5 degrees of rectifications for any 5-polytope, the zeroth here being the 5-orthoplex itself, and the 4th and last being the 5-cube. Vertices of the rectified 5-orthoplex are located at the edge-centers of the 5-orthoplex. Vertices of the birectified 5-orthoplex are located in the triangular face centers of the 5-orthoplex.

Rectified 5-orthoplex

Rectified pentacross
Type	uniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbol	t1{3,3,3,4}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
Hypercells	42 total: 10 {3,3,4} 32 t1{3,3,3}
Cells	240 total: 80 {3,4} 160 {3,3}
Faces	400 total: 80+320 {3}
Edges	240
Vertices	40
Vertex figure	Octahedral prism
Petrie polygon	Decagon
Coxeter groups	BC5, [3,3,3,4] D5, [32,1,1]
Properties	convex

Its 40 vertices represent the root vectors of the simple Lie group D₅. The vertices can be seen in 3 hyperplanes, with the 10 vertices rectified 5-cells cells on opposite sides, and 20 vertices of a runcinated 5-cell passing through the center. When combined with the 10 vertices of the 5-orthoplex, these vertices represent the 50 root vectors of the B₅ and C₅ simple Lie groups.

E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, identifying it as Cr₅¹ as a first rectification of a 5-dimensional cross polytope.

Alternate names

• rectified pentacross
• rectified triacontiditeron (32-faceted 5-polytope)

Construction

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the rectified pentacross, one with the C₅ or [4,3,3,3] Coxeter group, and a lower symmetry with two copies of 16-cell facets, alternating, with the D₅ or [3^2,1,1] Coxeter group.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a rectified pentacross, centered at the origin, edge length ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}\ }$ are all permutations of:

(±1,±1,0,0,0)

Images

orthographic projections

Coxeter plane	B5	B4 / D5	B3 / D4 / A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[10]	[8]	[6]
Coxeter plane	B2	A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[4]	[4]

Related polytopes

The rectified 5-orthoplex is the vertex figure for the 5-demicube honeycomb:

or

This polytope is one of 31 uniform 5-polytope generated from the regular 5-cube or 5-orthoplex.

B5 polytopes
β5	t1β5	t2γ5	t1γ5	γ5	t0,1β5	t0,2β5	t1,2β5
t0,3β5	t1,3γ5	t1,2γ5	t0,4γ5	t0,3γ5	t0,2γ5	t0,1γ5	t0,1,2β5
t0,1,3β5	t0,2,3β5	t1,2,3γ5	t0,1,4β5	t0,2,4γ5	t0,2,3γ5	t0,1,4γ5	t0,1,3γ5
t0,1,2γ5	t0,1,2,3β5	t0,1,2,4β5	t0,1,3,4γ5	t0,1,2,4γ5	t0,1,2,3γ5	t0,1,2,3,4γ5