The classification of compact hyperbolic Coxeter \(d\)-polytopes with \(d+2\) facets (Q1921346)

The paper refers to the classification of compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes of dimension \(d \geq 3\) and having \(d + 2\) facets. Besides a known classification of the simplices in this set, there are already gaps in the classification of such polytopes with a few more (than \(d + 1)\) bounding hyperplanes. For example, I. M. Kaplinskaja (1975) described all hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes of finite volume the combinatorial type of which is a product of a segment and a simplex. Related to this, the author completes the classification of compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes bounded by \(d + 2\) hyperplanes \((d \geq 3)\) by deriving all possible realizations in hyperbolic 4-space the combinatorial type of which is the product of two simplices of dimension larger than 1, and by excluding the existence of such polytopes for \(d \geq 5\). It should be noticed that the methods in this paper can be used to investigate the (large variety of) compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes bounded by \(d + 3\) hyperplanes, too.