Construction of non-Wythoffian perfect \(4\)-polytopes (Q1866613)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1894857
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    Construction of non-Wythoffian perfect \(4\)-polytopes
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1894857

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      Construction of non-Wythoffian perfect \(4\)-polytopes (English)
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      8 April 2003
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      Two convex polytopes \(P,Q\subset\mathbb R^d\) are symmetrically equivalent if there is an isometry \(\phi\) of \(\mathbb R^d\) and a combinatorial isomorphism \(\psi:P\to Q\) such that for each face \(F<P\) and each isometry \(\sigma\) fixing \(P\) we have that \(\sigma(F)=\psi^{-1}\phi^{-1}\sigma\phi\psi(F)\). A polytope is perfect if each symmetrically equivalent polytope is similar. Perfect polytopes generalize regular polytopes, and further examples arise as special cases of Wythoff's construction, that is, as the convex hull of a point orbit under a finite reflection group. The author constructs \(4\)-dimensional polytopes which cannot be obtained by Wythoff's method.
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      perfect polytopes
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      Wythoff construction
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      symmetrically equivalent polytope
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      4-dimensional polytopes
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