New regular compounds of 4-polytopes (Q2417588)

In a procedure called systematic faceting [Regular polytopes. 3rd ed. New York: Dover (1973)], \textit{H. S. M. Coxeter} goes through various sections of the 120-cell \([5, 3, 3]\) from a vertex. He listed the regular polytopes than can be inscribed in its vertices. In this article, the author points out that one of the sections was incompletely analysed. He proves that, rather than containing a single regular tetrahedron, it contains six others. Three of them have the same symbol as the ones in Coxeter's list and two are nearly the same. However, their symmetry groups are much smaller. In [Homographies, quaternions, and rotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1964; Zbl 0128.15403)], \textit{P. Du Val} describes some compounds but does not attempt to list them all. By an extensive use of quaternions, on the one hand the author establishes completeness of Coxeter's enumeration and on the other hand he corrects Du Val's tables. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1411.52002].