8-simplex honeycomb

In eighth-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 8-simplex honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). The tessellation fills space by 8-simplex, rectified 8-simplex, birectified 8-simplex, and trirectified 8-simplex facets. These facet types occur in proportions of 1:1:1:1 respectively in the whole honeycomb.

This vertex arrangement is called the A8 lattice or 8-simplex lattice. The 72 vertices of the expanded 8-simplex vertex figure represent the 72 roots of the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{8}}$Coxeter group. It is the 8-dimensional case of a simplectic honeycomb. Around each vertex figure are 510 facets: 9+9 8-simplex, 36+36 rectified 8-simplex, 84+84 birectified 8-simplex, 126+126 trirectified 8-simplex, with the count distribution from the 10th row of Pascal's triangle.

${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{8}}$contains ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{8}}$as a subgroup of index 5760. Both ${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{8}}$and ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{8}}$can be seen as affine extensions of ${\displaystyle A_{8}}$from different nodes:

The A³
₈ lattice is the union of three A₈ lattices, and also identical to the E8 lattice.

∪ ∪ = .

The A^*
₈ lattice (also called A⁹
₈) is the union of nine A₈ lattices, and has the vertex arrangement of the dual honeycomb to the omnitruncated 8-simplex honeycomb, and therefore the Voronoi cell of this lattice is an omnitruncated 8-simplex

∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ ∪ = dual of .

This honeycomb is one of 45 unique uniform honeycombs constructed by the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{8}}$Coxeter group. The symmetry can be multiplied by the ring symmetry of the Coxeter diagrams:

The 8-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 8-space:
  • 8-cubic honeycomb
  • 8-demicubic honeycomb
  • Truncated 8-simplex honeycomb
  • 5₂₁ honeycomb
  • 2₅₁ honeycomb
  • 1₅₂ honeycomb

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