1 33 honeycomb

Construction

It is created by a Wythoff construction upon a set of 8 hyperplane mirrors in 7-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram.

Removing a node on the end of one of the 3-length branch leaves the 1₃₂, its only facet type.

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the trirectified 7-simplex, 0₃₃.

The edge figure is determined by removing the ringed nodes of the vertex figure and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the tetrahedral duoprism, {3,3}×{3,3}.

Kissing number

Each vertex of this polytope corresponds to the center of a 6-sphere in a moderately dense sphere packing, in which each sphere is tangent to 70 others; the best known for 7 dimensions (the kissing number) is 126.

Geometric folding

The E ~ 7 group is related to the F ~ 4 by a geometric folding, so this honeycomb can be projected into the 4-dimensional demitesseractic honeycomb.

E7* lattice

E ~ 7 contains A ~ 7 as a subgroup of index 144. Both E ~ 7 and A ~ 7 can be seen as affine extension from A 7 from different nodes:

The E₇^* lattice (also called E₇²) has double the symmetry, represented by [[3,3^3,3]]. The Voronoi cell of the E₇^* lattice is the 1₃₂ polytope, and voronoi tessellation the 1₃₃ honeycomb. The E₇^* lattice is constructed by 2 copies of the E₇ lattice vertices, one from each long branch of the Coxeter diagram, and can be constructed as the union of four A₇^* lattices, also called A₇⁴:

Related polytopes and honeycombs

The 1₃₃ is fourth in a dimensional series of uniform polytopes and honeycombs, expressed by Coxeter as 1_3k series. The final is a noncompact hyperbolic honeycomb, 1₃₄.

Rectified 1_33 honeycomb

The rectified 1₃₃ or 0₃₃₁, Coxeter diagram has facets and , and vertex figure .