7-simplex honeycomb

In seven-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 7-simplex honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). The tessellation fills space by 7-simplex, rectified 7-simplex, birectified 7-simplex, and trirectified 7-simplex facets. These facet types occur in proportions of 2:2:2:1 respectively in the whole honeycomb.

This vertex arrangement is called the A7 lattice or 7-simplex lattice. The 56 vertices of the expanded 7-simplex vertex figure represent the 56 roots of the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$Coxeter group. It is the 7-dimensional case of a simplectic honeycomb. Around each vertex figure are 254 facets: 8+8 7-simplex, 28+28 rectified 7-simplex, 56+56 birectified 7-simplex, 70 trirectified 7-simplex, with the count distribution from the 9th row of Pascal's triangle.

${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$contains ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$as a subgroup of index 144. Both ${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$and ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$can be seen as affine extensions from ${\displaystyle A_{7}}$from different nodes:

The A²
₇ lattice can be constructed as the union of two A₇ lattices, and is identical to the E7 lattice.

∪ = .

The A⁴
₇ lattice is the union of four A₇ lattices, which is identical to the E7* lattice (or E²
₇).

∪ ∪ ∪ = + = dual of .

The A^*
₇ lattice (also called A⁸
₇) is the union of eight A₇ lattices, and has the vertex arrangement to the dual honeycomb of the omnitruncated 7-simplex honeycomb, and therefore the Voronoi cell of this lattice is an omnitruncated 7-simplex.

∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ = dual of .

This honeycomb is one of 29 unique uniform honeycombs constructed by the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$Coxeter group, grouped by their extended symmetry of rings within the regular octagon diagram:

The 7-simplex honeycomb can be projected into the 4-dimensional tesseractic honeycomb by a geometric folding operation that maps two pairs of mirrors into each other, sharing the same vertex arrangement:

Regular and uniform honeycombs in 7-space:

• 7-cubic honeycomb
• 7-demicubic honeycomb
• Truncated 7-simplex honeycomb
• Omnitruncated 7-simplex honeycomb
• E7 honeycomb

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