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91-563: Specifically, a k -simplex is a k -dimensional polytope that is the convex hull of its k + 1 vertices . More formally, suppose the k + 1 points u 0 , … , u k {\displaystyle u_{0},\dots ,u_{k}} are affinely independent , which means that the k vectors u 1 − u 0 , … , u k − u 0 {\displaystyle u_{1}-u_{0},\dots ,u_{k}-u_{0}} are linearly independent . Then,

182-445: A ( t + 1 ) {\displaystyle (t+1)} -dilate of P {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}} differs, in terms of integer lattice points, from a t {\displaystyle t} -dilate of P {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}} only by lattice points gained on the boundary. Equivalently, P {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}}

273-445: A 0/1-polytope , with all coordinates as 0 or 1. It can also be seen one facet of a regular ( n + 1) - orthoplex . There is a canonical map from the standard n -simplex to an arbitrary n -simplex with vertices ( v 0 , ..., v n ) given by The coefficients t i are called the barycentric coordinates of a point in the n -simplex. Such a general simplex is often called an affine n -simplex , to emphasize that

364-445: A 7-simplex is ( 1 , 1 ) = ( 1 ,2, 1 ) = ( 1 ,4,6,4, 1 ) = ( 1 ,8,28,56,70,56,28,8, 1 ). The number of 1-faces (edges) of the n -simplex is the n -th triangle number , the number of 2-faces of the n -simplex is the ( n − 1) th tetrahedron number , the number of 3-faces of the n -simplex is the ( n − 2) th 5-cell number, and so on. An n -simplex is the polytope with the fewest vertices that requires n dimensions. Consider

455-400: A circle , and all vertex pairs connected by edges. The standard n -simplex (or unit n -simplex ) is the subset of R given by The simplex Δ lies in the affine hyperplane obtained by removing the restriction t i ≥ 0 in the above definition. The n + 1 vertices of the standard n -simplex are the points e i ∈ R , where A standard simplex is an example of

546-422: A spatial vector ) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase letter with a circumflex , or "hat", as in v ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {\mathbf {v} }}} (pronounced "v-hat"). The normalized vector û of a non-zero vector u is the unit vector in the direction of u , i.e., where ‖ u ‖ is the norm (or length) of u . The term normalized vector

637-446: A 3-D Cartesian coordinate system. The notations ( î , ĵ , k̂ ), ( x̂ 1 , x̂ 2 , x̂ 3 ), ( ê x , ê y , ê z ), or ( ê 1 , ê 2 , ê 3 ), with or without hat , are also used, particularly in contexts where i , j , k might lead to confusion with another quantity (for instance with index symbols such as i , j , k , which are used to identify an element of a set or array or sequence of variables). When

728-458: A bounding surface, ignoring its interior. In this light convex polytopes in p -space are equivalent to tilings of the ( p −1)-sphere , while others may be tilings of other elliptic , flat or toroidal ( p −1)-surfaces – see elliptic tiling and toroidal polyhedron . A polyhedron is understood as a surface whose faces are polygons , a 4-polytope as a hypersurface whose facets ( cells ) are polyhedra, and so forth. The idea of constructing

819-399: A branch of theoretical physics , a polytope called the amplituhedron is used in to calculate the scattering amplitudes of subatomic particles when they collide. The construct is purely theoretical with no known physical manifestation, but is said to greatly simplify certain calculations. Unit vectors In mathematics , a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often

910-523: A figure a polyschem . The German term polytop was coined by the mathematician Reinhold Hoppe , and was introduced to English mathematicians as polytope by Alicia Boole Stott . Nowadays, the term polytope is a broad term that covers a wide class of objects, and various definitions appear in the mathematical literature. Many of these definitions are not equivalent to each other, resulting in different overlapping sets of objects being called polytopes . They represent different approaches to generalizing

1001-400: A higher polytope from those of lower dimension is also sometimes extended downwards in dimension, with an ( edge ) seen as a 1-polytope bounded by a point pair, and a point or vertex as a 0-polytope. This approach is used for example in the theory of abstract polytopes . In certain fields of mathematics, the terms "polytope" and "polyhedron" are used in a different sense: a polyhedron is

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1092-462: A join (∨ operator) of an n -simplex and a point,  ( ) . An ( m + n + 1) -simplex can be constructed as a join of an m -simplex and an n -simplex. The two simplices are oriented to be completely normal from each other, with translation in a direction orthogonal to both of them. A 1-simplex is the join of two points: ( ) ∨ ( ) = 2 ⋅ ( ) . A general 2-simplex (scalene triangle) is the join of three points: ( ) ∨ ( ) ∨ ( ) . An isosceles triangle

1183-437: A line segment AB as a shape in a 1-dimensional space (the 1-dimensional space is the line in which the segment lies). One can place a new point C somewhere off the line. The new shape, triangle ABC , requires two dimensions; it cannot fit in the original 1-dimensional space. The triangle is the 2-simplex, a simple shape that requires two dimensions. Consider a triangle ABC , a shape in a 2-dimensional space (the plane in which

1274-606: A more complete description, see Jacobian matrix and determinant . The non-zero derivatives are: Common themes of unit vectors occur throughout physics and geometry : A normal vector n ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {n}} } to the plane containing and defined by the radial position vector r r ^ {\displaystyle r\mathbf {\hat {r}} } and angular tangential direction of rotation θ θ ^ {\displaystyle \theta {\boldsymbol {\hat {\theta }}}}

1365-531: A number of linearly independent unit vectors e ^ n {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {e}} _{n}} (the actual number being equal to the degrees of freedom of the space). For ordinary 3-space, these vectors may be denoted e ^ 1 , e ^ 2 , e ^ 3 {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {e}} _{1},\mathbf {\hat {e}} _{2},\mathbf {\hat {e}} _{3}} . It

1456-413: A principal direction (red line), and a perpendicular unit vector e ^ ⊥ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {e}} _{\bot }} is in any radial direction relative to the principal line. Unit vector at acute deviation angle φ (including 0 or π /2 rad) relative to a principal direction. In general, a coordinate system may be uniquely specified using

1547-415: A ridge, while H. S. M. Coxeter uses cell to denote an ( n  − 1)-dimensional element. The terms adopted in this article are given in the table below: An n -dimensional polytope is bounded by a number of ( n  − 1)-dimensional facets . These facets are themselves polytopes, whose facets are ( n  − 2)-dimensional ridges of the original polytope. Every ridge arises as

1638-597: A set of half-spaces . This definition allows a polytope to be neither bounded nor finite. Polytopes are defined in this way, e.g., in linear programming . A polytope is bounded if there is a ball of finite radius that contains it. A polytope is said to be pointed if it contains at least one vertex. Every bounded nonempty polytope is pointed. An example of a non-pointed polytope is the set { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ x ≥ 0 } {\displaystyle \{(x,y)\in \mathbb {R} ^{2}\mid x\geq 0\}} . A polytope

1729-597: A two-dimensional polygon is a 2-polytope and a three-dimensional polyhedron is a 3-polytope. In this context, "flat sides" means that the sides of a ( k + 1) -polytope consist of k -polytopes that may have ( k – 1) -polytopes in common. Some theories further generalize the idea to include such objects as unbounded apeirotopes and tessellations , decompositions or tilings of curved manifolds including spherical polyhedra , and set-theoretic abstract polytopes . Polytopes of more than three dimensions were first discovered by Ludwig Schläfli before 1853, who called such

1820-418: A unit vector in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} , then the square of v in quaternions is –1. Thus by Euler's formula , exp ⁡ ( θ v ) = cos ⁡ θ + v sin ⁡ θ {\displaystyle \exp(\theta v)=\cos \theta +v\sin \theta } is a versor in the 3-sphere . When θ

1911-636: A unit vector in space is expressed in Cartesian notation as a linear combination of x , y , z , its three scalar components can be referred to as direction cosines . The value of each component is equal to the cosine of the angle formed by the unit vector with the respective basis vector. This is one of the methods used to describe the orientation (angular position) of a straight line, segment of straight line, oriented axis, or segment of oriented axis ( vector ). The three orthogonal unit vectors appropriate to cylindrical symmetry are: They are related to

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2002-613: A vector of all ones, and the inequality is component-wise. It follows from this definition that P {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}} is reflexive if and only if ( t + 1 ) P ∘ ∩ Z d = t P ∩ Z d {\displaystyle (t+1){\mathcal {P}}^{\circ }\cap \mathbb {Z} ^{d}=t{\mathcal {P}}\cap \mathbb {Z} ^{d}} for all t ∈ Z ≥ 0 {\displaystyle t\in \mathbb {Z} _{\geq 0}} . In other words,

2093-460: Is 2 ( n + 1 ) / n {\textstyle {\sqrt {2(n+1)/n}}} . A highly symmetric way to construct a regular n -simplex is to use a representation of the cyclic group Z n +1 by orthogonal matrices . This is an n × n orthogonal matrix Q such that Q = I is the identity matrix , but no lower power of Q is. Applying powers of this matrix to an appropriate vector v will produce

2184-475: Is 1 or, if n is odd , −1 ; or it is a 2 × 2 matrix of the form where each ω i is an integer between zero and n inclusive. A sufficient condition for the orbit of a point to be a regular simplex is that the matrices Q i form a basis for the non-trivial irreducible real representations of Z n +1 , and the vector being rotated is not stabilized by any of them. In practical terms, for n even this means that every matrix Q i

2275-520: Is 1 × 1 , equal to −1 , and acts upon a non-zero entry of v ; while the remaining diagonal blocks, say Q 1 , ..., Q ( n − 1) / 2 , are 2 × 2 , there is an equality of sets Polytope In elementary geometry , a polytope is a geometric object with flat sides ( faces ). Polytopes are the generalization of three-dimensional polyhedra to any number of dimensions. Polytopes may exist in any general number of dimensions n as an n -dimensional polytope or n -polytope . For example,

2366-405: Is 2 × 2 , there is an equality of sets and, for every Q i , the entries of v upon which Q i acts are not both zero. For example, when n = 4 , one possible matrix is Applying this to the vector (1, 0, 1, 0) results in the simplex whose vertices are each of which has distance √5 from the others. When n is odd, the condition means that exactly one of the diagonal blocks

2457-408: Is 4 ⋅ ( ) or {3,3} and so on. In some conventions, the empty set is defined to be a (−1)-simplex. The definition of the simplex above still makes sense if n = −1 . This convention is more common in applications to algebraic topology (such as simplicial homology ) than to the study of polytopes. These Petrie polygons (skew orthogonal projections) show all the vertices of the regular simplex on

2548-398: Is finite if it is defined in terms of a finite number of objects, e.g., as an intersection of a finite number of half-planes. It is an integral polytope if all of its vertices have integer coordinates. A certain class of convex polytopes are reflexive polytopes. An integral d {\displaystyle d} -polytope P {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}}

2639-535: Is a right angle , the versor is a right versor: its scalar part is zero and its vector part v is a unit vector in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} . Thus the right versors extend the notion of imaginary units found in the complex plane , where the right versors now range over the 2-sphere S 2 ⊂ R 3 ⊂ H {\displaystyle \mathbb {S} ^{2}\subset \mathbb {R} ^{3}\subset \mathbb {H} } rather than

2730-901: Is a simplex that is also a regular polytope . A regular k -simplex may be constructed from a regular ( k − 1) -simplex by connecting a new vertex to all original vertices by the common edge length. The standard simplex or probability simplex is the ( k − 1) -dimensional simplex whose vertices are the k standard unit vectors in R k {\displaystyle \mathbf {R} ^{k}} , or in other words { x ∈ R k : x 0 + ⋯ + x k − 1 = 1 , x i ≥ 0  for  i = 0 , … , k − 1 } . {\displaystyle \left\{x\in \mathbf {R} ^{k}:x_{0}+\dots +x_{k-1}=1,x_{i}\geq 0{\text{ for }}i=0,\dots ,k-1\right\}.} In topology and combinatorics , it

2821-416: Is called an edge , and consists of a line segment. A 2-dimensional face consists of a polygon , and a 3-dimensional face, sometimes called a cell , consists of a polyhedron . A polytope may be convex . The convex polytopes are the simplest kind of polytopes, and form the basis for several different generalizations of the concept of polytopes. A convex polytope is sometimes defined as the intersection of

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2912-515: Is common to "glue together" simplices to form a simplicial complex . The associated combinatorial structure is called an abstract simplicial complex , in which context the word "simplex" simply means any finite set of vertices. The concept of a simplex was known to William Kingdon Clifford , who wrote about these shapes in 1886 but called them "prime confines". Henri Poincaré , writing about algebraic topology in 1900, called them "generalized tetrahedra". In 1902 Pieter Hendrik Schoute described

3003-529: Is defined by its vertices. Polytopes in lower numbers of dimensions have standard names: A polytope comprises elements of different dimensionality such as vertices, edges, faces, cells and so on. Terminology for these is not fully consistent across different authors. For example, some authors use face to refer to an ( n  − 1)-dimensional element while others use face to denote a 2-face specifically. Authors may use j -face or j -facet to indicate an element of j dimensions. Some use edge to refer to

3094-423: Is inscribed in a hypersphere of radius n / ( 2 ( n + 1 ) ) {\displaystyle {\sqrt {n/(2(n+1))}}} . A different rescaling produces a simplex that is inscribed in a unit hypersphere. When this is done, its vertices are where 1 ≤ i ≤ n {\displaystyle 1\leq i\leq n} , and The side length of this simplex

3185-667: Is nearly always convenient to define the system to be orthonormal and right-handed : where δ i j {\displaystyle \delta _{ij}} is the Kronecker delta (which is 1 for i = j , and 0 otherwise) and ε i j k {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{ijk}} is the Levi-Civita symbol (which is 1 for permutations ordered as ijk , and −1 for permutations ordered as kji ). A unit vector in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}}

3276-492: Is necessary so that the vector equations of angular motion hold. In terms of polar coordinates ; n ^ = r ^ × θ ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {n}} =\mathbf {\hat {r}} \times {\boldsymbol {\hat {\theta }}}} One unit vector e ^ ∥ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {e}} _{\parallel }} aligned parallel to

3367-428: Is necessary, see for example the rules described for dual polyhedra . Depending on circumstance, the dual figure may or may not be another geometric polytope. If the dual is reversed, then the original polytope is recovered. Thus, polytopes exist in dual pairs. If a polytope has the same number of vertices as facets, of edges as ridges, and so forth, and the same connectivities, then the dual figure will be similar to

3458-555: Is not centered on the origin. It can be translated to the origin by subtracting the mean of its vertices. By rescaling, it can be given unit side length. This results in the simplex whose vertices are: for 1 ≤ i ≤ n {\displaystyle 1\leq i\leq n} , and Note that there are two sets of vertices described here. One set uses + {\displaystyle +} in each calculation. The other set uses − {\displaystyle -} in each calculation. This simplex

3549-813: Is reflexive if and only if its dual polytope P ∗ {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}^{*}} is an integral polytope. Regular polytopes have the highest degree of symmetry of all polytopes. The symmetry group of a regular polytope acts transitively on its flags ; hence, the dual polytope of a regular polytope is also regular. There are three main classes of regular polytope which occur in any number of dimensions: Dimensions two, three and four include regular figures which have fivefold symmetries and some of which are non-convex stars, and in two dimensions there are infinitely many regular polygons of n -fold symmetry, both convex and (for n ≥ 5) star. But in higher dimensions there are no other regular polytopes. In three dimensions

3640-415: Is reflexive if for some integral matrix A {\displaystyle \mathbf {A} } , P = { x ∈ R d : A x ≤ 1 } {\displaystyle {\mathcal {P}}=\{\mathbf {x} \in \mathbb {R} ^{d}:\mathbf {Ax} \leq \mathbf {1} \}} , where 1 {\displaystyle \mathbf {1} } denotes

3731-425: Is sometimes used as a synonym for unit vector . A unit vector is often used to represent directions , such as normal directions . Unit vectors are often chosen to form the basis of a vector space, and every vector in the space may be written as a linear combination form of unit vectors. Unit vectors may be used to represent the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system . For instance, the standard unit vectors in

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3822-465: Is that it uses the order but not addition, and thus can be defined in any dimension over any ordered set, and for example can be used to define an infinite-dimensional simplex without issues of convergence of sums. Especially in numerical applications of probability theory a projection onto the standard simplex is of interest. Given ( p i ) i {\displaystyle (p_{i})_{i}} with possibly negative entries,

3913-606: Is the softmax function , or normalized exponential function; this generalizes the standard logistic function . An alternative coordinate system is given by taking the indefinite sum : This yields the alternative presentation by order, namely as nondecreasing n -tuples between 0 and 1: Geometrically, this is an n -dimensional subset of R n {\displaystyle \mathbf {R} ^{n}} (maximal dimension, codimension 0) rather than of R n + 1 {\displaystyle \mathbf {R} ^{n+1}} (codimension 1). The facets, which on

4004-420: Is the behavior under permuting coordinates – the standard simplex is stabilized by permuting coordinates, while permuting elements of the "ordered simplex" do not leave it invariant, as permuting an ordered sequence generally makes it unordered. Indeed, the ordered simplex is a (closed) fundamental domain for the action of the symmetric group on the n -cube, meaning that the orbit of the ordered simplex under

4095-440: Is the join of a 1-simplex and a point: { } ∨ ( ) . An equilateral triangle is 3 ⋅ ( ) or {3}. A general 3-simplex is the join of 4 points: ( ) ∨ ( ) ∨ ( ) ∨ ( ) . A 3-simplex with mirror symmetry can be expressed as the join of an edge and two points: { } ∨ ( ) ∨ ( ) . A 3-simplex with triangular symmetry can be expressed as the join of an equilateral triangle and 1 point: 3.( )∨( ) or {3}∨( ) . A regular tetrahedron

4186-457: Is the simplex used in the simplex method , which is based at the origin, and locally models a vertex on a polytope with n facets. One way to write down a regular n -simplex in R is to choose two points to be the first two vertices, choose a third point to make an equilateral triangle, choose a fourth point to make a regular tetrahedron, and so on. Each step requires satisfying equations that ensure that each newly chosen vertex, together with

4277-401: The 11-cell . An abstract polytope is a partially ordered set of elements or members, which obeys certain rules. It is a purely algebraic structure, and the theory was developed in order to avoid some of the issues which make it difficult to reconcile the various geometric classes within a consistent mathematical framework. A geometric polytope is said to be a realization in some real space of

4368-437: The amplituhedron was discovered as a simplifying construct in certain calculations of theoretical physics. In the field of optimization , linear programming studies the maxima and minima of linear functions; these maxima and minima occur on the boundary of an n -dimensional polytope. In linear programming, polytopes occur in the use of generalized barycentric coordinates and slack variables . In twistor theory ,

4459-412: The basis vectors of R by e 1 through e n . Begin with the standard ( n − 1) -simplex which is the convex hull of the basis vectors. By adding an additional vertex, these become a face of a regular n -simplex. The additional vertex must lie on the line perpendicular to the barycenter of the standard simplex, so it has the form ( α / n , ..., α / n ) for some real number α . Since

4550-468: The convex polytopes to include other objects with similar properties. The original approach broadly followed by Ludwig Schläfli , Thorold Gosset and others begins with the extension by analogy into four or more dimensions, of the idea of a polygon and polyhedron respectively in two and three dimensions. Attempts to generalise the Euler characteristic of polyhedra to higher-dimensional polytopes led to

4641-410: The n ! elements of the symmetric group divides the n -cube into n ! {\displaystyle n!} mostly disjoint simplices (disjoint except for boundaries), showing that this simplex has volume 1/ n ! . Alternatively, the volume can be computed by an iterated integral, whose successive integrands are 1, x , x /2 , x /3! , ..., x / n ! . A further property of this presentation

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4732-491: The n -simplex. The 0-faces (i.e., the defining points themselves as sets of size 1) are called the vertices (singular: vertex), the 1-faces are called the edges , the ( n − 1 )-faces are called the facets , and the sole n -face is the whole n -simplex itself. In general, the number of m -faces is equal to the binomial coefficient ( n + 1 m + 1 ) {\displaystyle {\tbinom {n+1}{m+1}}} . Consequently,

4823-443: The regular skew polyhedra and the infinite series of tilings represented by the regular apeirogon , square tiling, cubic honeycomb, and so on. The theory of abstract polytopes attempts to detach polytopes from the space containing them, considering their purely combinatorial properties. This allows the definition of the term to be extended to include objects for which it is difficult to define an intuitive underlying space, such as

4914-424: The star polytopes . Some regular polytopes are stars. Since a (filled) convex polytope P in d {\displaystyle d} dimensions is contractible to a point, the Euler characteristic χ {\displaystyle \chi } of its boundary ∂P is given by the alternating sum: This generalizes Euler's formula for polyhedra . The Gram–Euler theorem similarly generalizes

5005-406: The tessellation of n -dimensional space by infinitely many hypercubes , he labeled as δ n . The convex hull of any nonempty subset of the n + 1 points that define an n -simplex is called a face of the simplex. Faces are simplices themselves. In particular, the convex hull of a subset of size m + 1 (of the n + 1 defining points) is an m -simplex, called an m -face of

5096-568: The topological idea of a polytope as the piecewise decomposition (e.g. CW-complex ) of a manifold . Branko Grünbaum published his influential work on Convex Polytopes in 1967. In 1952 Geoffrey Colin Shephard generalised the idea as complex polytopes in complex space, where each real dimension has an imaginary one associated with it. Coxeter developed the theory further. The conceptual issues raised by complex polytopes, non-convexity, duality and other phenomena led Grünbaum and others to

5187-628: The uniform polytopes , convex and nonconvex, in four or more dimensions remains an outstanding problem. The convex uniform 4-polytopes were fully enumerated by John Conway and Michael Guy using a computer in 1965; in higher dimensions this problem was still open as of 1997. The full enumeration for nonconvex uniform polytopes is not known in dimensions four and higher as of 2008. In modern times, polytopes and related concepts have found many important applications in fields as diverse as computer graphics , optimization , search engines , cosmology , quantum mechanics and numerous other fields. In 2013

5278-411: The 3-space. The new shape ABCDE , called a 5-cell, requires four dimensions and is called the 4-simplex; it cannot fit in the original 3-dimensional space. (It also cannot be visualized easily.) This idea can be generalized, that is, adding a single new point outside the currently occupied space, which requires going to the next higher dimension to hold the new shape. This idea can also be worked backward:

5369-500: The American "physics" convention is used. This leaves the azimuthal angle φ {\displaystyle \varphi } defined the same as in cylindrical coordinates. The Cartesian relations are: The spherical unit vectors depend on both φ {\displaystyle \varphi } and θ {\displaystyle \theta } , and hence there are 5 possible non-zero derivatives. For

5460-1042: The Cartesian basis x ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {x}}} , y ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {y}}} , z ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {z}}} by: The vectors ρ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\rho }}}} and φ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\varphi }}}} are functions of φ , {\displaystyle \varphi ,} and are not constant in direction. When differentiating or integrating in cylindrical coordinates, these unit vectors themselves must also be operated on. The derivatives with respect to φ {\displaystyle \varphi } are: The unit vectors appropriate to spherical symmetry are: r ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {r}} } ,

5551-403: The additional property that, for any two simplices that have a nonempty intersection, their intersection is a vertex, edge, or higher dimensional face of the two. However this definition does not allow star polytopes with interior structures, and so is restricted to certain areas of mathematics. The discovery of star polyhedra and other unusual constructions led to the idea of a polyhedron as

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5642-557: The alternating sum of internal angles ∑ φ {\textstyle \sum \varphi } for convex polyhedra to higher-dimensional polytopes: Not all manifolds are finite. Where a polytope is understood as a tiling or decomposition of a manifold, this idea may be extended to infinite manifolds. plane tilings , space-filling ( honeycombs ) and hyperbolic tilings are in this sense polytopes, and are sometimes called apeirotopes because they have infinitely many cells. Among these, there are regular forms including

5733-630: The associated abstract polytope. Structures analogous to polytopes exist in complex Hilbert spaces C n {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ^{n}} where n real dimensions are accompanied by n imaginary ones. Regular complex polytopes are more appropriately treated as configurations . Every n -polytope has a dual structure, obtained by interchanging its vertices for facets, edges for ridges, and so on generally interchanging its ( j  − 1)-dimensional elements for ( n  −  j )-dimensional elements (for j  = 1 to n  − 1), while retaining

5824-406: The canonical map is an affine transformation . It is also sometimes called an oriented affine n -simplex to emphasize that the canonical map may be orientation preserving or reversing. More generally, there is a canonical map from the standard ( n − 1 ) {\displaystyle (n-1)} -simplex (with n vertices) onto any polytope with n vertices, given by

5915-762: The closest point ( t i ) i {\displaystyle \left(t_{i}\right)_{i}} on the simplex has coordinates where Δ {\displaystyle \Delta } is chosen such that ∑ i max { p i + Δ , 0 } = 1. {\textstyle \sum _{i}\max\{p_{i}+\Delta \,,0\}=1.} Δ {\displaystyle \Delta } can be easily calculated from sorting p i . The sorting approach takes O ( n log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle O(n\log n)} complexity, which can be improved to O( n ) complexity via median-finding algorithms. Projecting onto

6006-472: The concept first with the Latin superlative simplicissimum ("simplest") and then with the same Latin adjective in the normal form simplex ("simple"). The regular simplex family is the first of three regular polytope families, labeled by Donald Coxeter as α n , the other two being the cross-polytope family, labeled as β n , and the hypercubes , labeled as γ n . A fourth family,

6097-468: The connectivity or incidence between elements. For an abstract polytope, this simply reverses the ordering of the set. This reversal is seen in the Schläfli symbols for regular polytopes, where the symbol for the dual polytope is simply the reverse of the original. For example, {4, 3, 3} is dual to {3, 3, 4}. In the case of a geometric polytope, some geometric rule for dualising

6188-558: The convex Platonic solids include the fivefold-symmetric dodecahedron and icosahedron , and there are also four star Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra with fivefold symmetry, bringing the total to nine regular polyhedra. In four dimensions the regular 4-polytopes include one additional convex solid with fourfold symmetry and two with fivefold symmetry. There are ten star Schläfli-Hess 4-polytopes , all with fivefold symmetry, giving in all sixteen regular 4-polytopes. A non-convex polytope may be self-intersecting; this class of polytopes include

6279-406: The development of topology and the treatment of a decomposition or CW-complex as analogous to a polytope. In this approach, a polytope may be regarded as a tessellation or decomposition of some given manifold . An example of this approach defines a polytope as a set of points that admits a simplicial decomposition . In this definition, a polytope is the union of finitely many simplices , with

6370-616: The direction in which the angle from the positive z axis is increasing. To minimize redundancy of representations, the polar angle θ {\displaystyle \theta } is usually taken to lie between zero and 180 degrees. It is especially important to note the context of any ordered triplet written in spherical coordinates , as the roles of φ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\varphi }}}} and θ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\theta }}}} are often reversed. Here,

6461-405: The direction in which the radial distance from the origin increases; φ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\varphi }}}} , the direction in which the angle in the x - y plane counterclockwise from the positive x -axis is increasing; and θ ^ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\hat {\theta }}}} ,

6552-760: The direction of the x , y , and z axes of a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system are They form a set of mutually orthogonal unit vectors, typically referred to as a standard basis in linear algebra . They are often denoted using common vector notation (e.g., x or x → {\displaystyle {\vec {x}}} ) rather than standard unit vector notation (e.g., x̂ ). In most contexts it can be assumed that x , y , and z , (or x → , {\displaystyle {\vec {x}},} y → , {\displaystyle {\vec {y}},} and z → {\displaystyle {\vec {z}}} ) are versors of

6643-399: The fact that the angle subtended through the center of the simplex by any two vertices is arccos ⁡ ( − 1 / n ) {\displaystyle \arccos(-1/n)} . It is also possible to directly write down a particular regular n -simplex in R which can then be translated, rotated, and scaled as desired. One way to do this is as follows. Denote

6734-536: The following decades, even during his lifetime. In 1882 Reinhold Hoppe , writing in German, coined the word polytop to refer to this more general concept of polygons and polyhedra. In due course Alicia Boole Stott , daughter of logician George Boole , introduced the anglicised polytope into the English language. In 1895, Thorold Gosset not only rediscovered Schläfli's regular polytopes but also investigated

6825-414: The generic object in any dimension (referred to as polytope in this article) and polytope means a bounded polyhedron. This terminology is typically confined to polytopes and polyhedra that are convex . With this terminology, a convex polyhedron is the intersection of a finite number of halfspaces and is defined by its sides while a convex polytope is the convex hull of a finite number of points and

6916-459: The ideas of semiregular polytopes and space-filling tessellations in higher dimensions. Polytopes also began to be studied in non-Euclidean spaces such as hyperbolic space. An important milestone was reached in 1948 with H. S. M. Coxeter 's book Regular Polytopes , summarizing work to date and adding new findings of his own. Meanwhile, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré had developed

7007-434: The intersection of two facets (but the intersection of two facets need not be a ridge). Ridges are once again polytopes whose facets give rise to ( n  − 3)-dimensional boundaries of the original polytope, and so on. These bounding sub-polytopes may be referred to as faces , or specifically j -dimensional faces or j -faces. A 0-dimensional face is called a vertex , and consists of a single point. A 1-dimensional face

7098-403: The line segment we started with is a simple shape that requires a 1-dimensional space to hold it; the line segment is the 1-simplex. The line segment itself was formed by starting with a single point in 0-dimensional space (this initial point is the 0-simplex) and adding a second point, which required the increase to 1-dimensional space. More formally, an ( n + 1) -simplex can be constructed as

7189-469: The more general study of abstract combinatorial properties relating vertices, edges, faces and so on. A related idea was that of incidence complexes, which studied the incidence or connection of the various elements with one another. These developments led eventually to the theory of abstract polytopes as partially ordered sets, or posets, of such elements. Peter McMullen and Egon Schulte published their book Abstract Regular Polytopes in 2002. Enumerating

7280-436: The number of m -faces of an n -simplex may be found in column ( m + 1 ) of row ( n + 1 ) of Pascal's triangle . A simplex A is a coface of a simplex B if B is a face of A . Face and facet can have different meanings when describing types of simplices in a simplicial complex . The extended f-vector for an n -simplex can be computed by ( 1 , 1 ) , like the coefficients of polynomial products . For example,

7371-508: The original and the polytope is self-dual. Some common self-dual polytopes include: Polygons and polyhedra have been known since ancient times. An early hint of higher dimensions came in 1827 when August Ferdinand Möbius discovered that two mirror-image solids can be superimposed by rotating one of them through a fourth mathematical dimension. By the 1850s, a handful of other mathematicians such as Arthur Cayley and Hermann Grassmann had also considered higher dimensions. Ludwig Schläfli

7462-464: The previously chosen vertices, forms a regular simplex. There are several sets of equations that can be written down and used for this purpose. These include the equality of all the distances between vertices; the equality of all the distances from vertices to the center of the simplex; the fact that the angle subtended through the new vertex by any two previously chosen vertices is π / 3 {\displaystyle \pi /3} ; and

7553-452: The same equation (modifying indexing): These are known as generalized barycentric coordinates , and express every polytope as the image of a simplex: Δ n − 1 ↠ P . {\displaystyle \Delta ^{n-1}\twoheadrightarrow P.} A commonly used function from R to the interior of the standard ( n − 1 ) {\displaystyle (n-1)} -simplex

7644-664: The simplex determined by them is the set of points C = { θ 0 u 0 + ⋯ + θ k u k   |   ∑ i = 0 k θ i = 1  and  θ i ≥ 0  for  i = 0 , … , k } . {\displaystyle C=\left\{\theta _{0}u_{0}+\dots +\theta _{k}u_{k}~{\Bigg |}~\sum _{i=0}^{k}\theta _{i}=1{\mbox{ and }}\theta _{i}\geq 0{\mbox{ for }}i=0,\dots ,k\right\}.} A regular simplex

7735-408: The simplex is computationally similar to projecting onto the ℓ 1 {\displaystyle \ell _{1}} ball. Finally, a simple variant is to replace "summing to 1" with "summing to at most 1"; this raises the dimension by 1, so to simplify notation, the indexing changes: This yields an n -simplex as a corner of the n -cube, and is a standard orthogonal simplex. This

7826-444: The squared distance between two basis vectors is 2, in order for the additional vertex to form a regular n -simplex, the squared distance between it and any of the basis vectors must also be 2. This yields a quadratic equation for α . Solving this equation shows that there are two choices for the additional vertex: Either of these, together with the standard basis vectors, yields a regular n -simplex. The above regular n -simplex

7917-449: The standard simplex correspond to one coordinate vanishing, t i = 0 , {\displaystyle t_{i}=0,} here correspond to successive coordinates being equal, s i = s i + 1 , {\displaystyle s_{i}=s_{i+1},} while the interior corresponds to the inequalities becoming strict (increasing sequences). A key distinction between these presentations

8008-426: The triangle resides). One can place a new point D somewhere off the plane. The new shape, tetrahedron ABCD , requires three dimensions; it cannot fit in the original 2-dimensional space. The tetrahedron is the 3-simplex, a simple shape that requires three dimensions. Consider tetrahedron ABCD , a shape in a 3-dimensional space (the 3-space in which the tetrahedron lies). One can place a new point E somewhere outside

8099-419: The vertices of a regular n -simplex. To carry this out, first observe that for any orthogonal matrix Q , there is a choice of basis in which Q is a block diagonal matrix where each Q i is orthogonal and either 2 × 2 or 1 × 1 . In order for Q to have order n + 1 , all of these matrices must have order dividing n + 1 . Therefore each Q i is either a 1 × 1 matrix whose only entry

8190-401: Was called a right versor by W. R. Hamilton , as he developed his quaternions H ⊂ R 4 {\displaystyle \mathbb {H} \subset \mathbb {R} ^{4}} . In fact, he was the originator of the term vector , as every quaternion q = s + v {\displaystyle q=s+v} has a scalar part s and a vector part v . If v is

8281-450: Was the first to consider analogues of polygons and polyhedra in these higher spaces. He described the six convex regular 4-polytopes in 1852 but his work was not published until 1901, six years after his death. By 1854, Bernhard Riemann 's Habilitationsschrift had firmly established the geometry of higher dimensions, and thus the concept of n -dimensional polytopes was made acceptable. Schläfli's polytopes were rediscovered many times in

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