A metrical characterization of symmetric polytopes (Q1120832)

The author continues his investigations to extremal projections of convex polytopes, with respect to their measures, in lower-dimensional linear spaces [see e.g. Geom. Dedicata 27, No.3, 251-262 (1988; Zbl 0651.52011)]. The present paper is referred to projections of uniform polytopes in \({\mathbb{R}}^{2n}\) to uniform polytopes in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\). It is shown that each of those projections has a greater volume than any other projection having the same combinatorial type. Namely, a family of symmetric projections of (2n)-polytopes to \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\), given in a paper of \textit{B. Monson} [Geom. Dedicata 23, 355-363 (1987; Zbl 0622.52007)], gives the starting point. The determination of the invariant n-vectors of the induced action of these symmetry groups on the exterior algebra \(\Lambda_ n{\mathbb{R}}^{2n}\) yields the result mentioned above. An interesting collection of examples for \(n\in \{2,3,4\}\) is presented, e.g. the corresponding relation between Schläfli's 24-cell and the regular 12-gon and between the cross polytope in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 6\) and the Platonic icosahedron. Finally, a similar correspondence between \({\mathbb{R}}^{2n-1}\) and \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) is discussed.