Regular 4-polytopeIn mathematics, a regular 4-polytope is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions. There are six convex and ten star regular 4-polytopes, giving a total of sixteen. The convex regular 4-polytopes were first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the mid-19th century. He discovered that there are precisely six such figures.
Rectified 5-orthoplexesIn five-dimensional geometry, a rectified 5-orthoplex is a convex uniform 5-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 5-orthoplex. 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. Its 40 vertices represent the root vectors of the simple Lie group D5.
Coxeter elementIn mathematics, the Coxeter number h is the order of a Coxeter element of an irreducible Coxeter group. It is named after H.S.M. Coxeter. Note that this article assumes a finite Coxeter group. For infinite Coxeter groups, there are multiple conjugacy classes of Coxeter elements, and they have infinite order. There are many different ways to define the Coxeter number h of an irreducible root system. A Coxeter element is a product of all simple reflections.
Complex polytopeIn geometry, a complex polytope is a generalization of a polytope in real space to an analogous structure in a complex Hilbert space, where each real dimension is accompanied by an imaginary one. A complex polytope may be understood as a collection of complex points, lines, planes, and so on, where every point is the junction of multiple lines, every line of multiple planes, and so on. Precise definitions exist only for the regular complex polytopes, which are configurations.
HypercubeUn hypercube est, en géométrie, un analogue n-dimensionnel d'un carré (n = 2) et d'un cube (n = 3). C'est une figure fermée, compacte, convexe constituée de groupes de segments parallèles opposés alignés dans chacune des dimensions de l'espace, à angle droit les uns par rapport aux autres. Un hypercube n-dimensionnel est aussi appelé un n-cube. Le terme « polytope de mesure » a aussi été utilisé (notamment par Coxeter), mais il est tombé en désuétude. Enfin, le cas particulier du 4-cube est souvent désigné par le terme de tesseract.
Polytope régulierdroite|vignette|Le dodécaèdre régulier, un des cinq solides platoniciens. En mathématiques, plus précisément en géométrie ou encore en géométrie euclidienne, un polytope régulier est une figure de géométrie présentant un grand nombre de symétries. En dimension deux, on trouve par exemple le triangle équilatéral, le carré, les pentagone et hexagone réguliers, etc. En dimension trois se rangent parmi les polytopes réguliers le cube, le dodécaèdre régulier (ci-contre), tous les solides platoniciens.
