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9-simplex

In geometry, a 9-simplex is a self-dual regular 9-polytope. It has 10 vertices, 45 edges, 120 triangle faces, 210 tetrahedral cells, 252 5-cell 4-faces, 210 5-simplex 5-faces, 120 6-simplex 6-faces, 45 7-simplex 7-faces, and 10 8-simplex 8-faces. Its dihedral angle is cos−1(1/9), or approximately 83.62°.

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Regular decayotton
(9-simplex)

Orthogonal projection
inside Petrie polygon
Type Regular 9-polytope
Family simplex
Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin
diagram
8-faces 10 8-simplex
7-faces 45 7-simplex
6-faces 120 6-simplex
5-faces 210 5-simplex
4-faces 252 5-cell
Cells 210 tetrahedron
Faces 120 triangle
Edges 45
Vertices 10
Vertex figure 8-simplex
Petrie polygon decagon
Coxeter group A9 [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3]
Dual Self-dual
Properties convex

In geometry, a 9-simplex is a self-dual regular 9-polytope. It has 10 vertices, 45 edges, 120 triangle faces, 210 tetrahedral cells, 252 5-cell 4-faces, 210 5-simplex 5-faces, 120 6-simplex 6-faces, 45 7-simplex 7-faces, and 10 8-simplex 8-faces. Its dihedral angle is cos−1(1/9), or approximately 83.62°.

It can also be called a decayotton, or deca-9-tope, as a 10-facetted polytope in 9-dimensions. The name decayotton is derived from deca for ten facets in Greek and yotta (a variation of "oct" for eight), having 8-dimensional facets, and -on.
Jonathan Bowers gives it acronym day.1

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of an origin-centered regular decayotton having edge length 2 are:

( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   1 / 21 ,   1 / 15 ,   1 / 10 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 3 ,   ± 1 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ {\sqrt {1/6}},\ {\sqrt {1/3}},\ \pm 1\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   1 / 21 ,   1 / 15 ,   1 / 10 ,   1 / 6 ,   2 1 / 3 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ {\sqrt {1/6}},\ -2{\sqrt {1/3}},\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   1 / 21 ,   1 / 15 ,   1 / 10 ,   3 / 2 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ -{\sqrt {3/2}},\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   1 / 21 ,   1 / 15 ,   2 2 / 5 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ -2{\sqrt {2/5}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   1 / 21 ,   5 / 3 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ -{\sqrt {5/3}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   1 / 28 ,   12 / 7 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ -{\sqrt {12/7}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   1 / 6 ,   7 / 4 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ -{\sqrt {7/4}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 1 / 45 ,   4 / 3 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ -4/3,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}
( 3 1 / 5 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ,   0 ) {\displaystyle \left(-3{\sqrt {1/5}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)}

More simply, the vertices of the 9-simplex can be positioned in 10-space as permutations of (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1). These are the vertices of one facet of the 10-orthoplex.

Images

Orthographic projections
Ak Coxeter plane A9 A8 A7 A6
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [10] [9] [8] [7]
Ak Coxeter plane A5 A4 A3 A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [5] [4] [3]
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Regular polygon Triangle Square p-gon Hexagon Pentagon
Uniform polyhedron Tetrahedron OctahedronCube Demicube DodecahedronIcosahedron
Uniform polychoron Pentachoron 16-cellTesseract Demitesseract 24-cell 120-cell600-cell
Uniform 5-polytope 5-simplex 5-orthoplex5-cube 5-demicube
Uniform 6-polytope 6-simplex 6-orthoplex6-cube 6-demicube 122221
Uniform 7-polytope 7-simplex 7-orthoplex7-cube 7-demicube 132231321
Uniform 8-polytope 8-simplex 8-orthoplex8-cube 8-demicube 142241421
Uniform 9-polytope 9-simplex 9-orthoplex9-cube 9-demicube
Uniform 10-polytope 10-simplex 10-orthoplex10-cube 10-demicube
Uniform n-polytope n-simplex n-orthoplexn-cube n-demicube 1k22k1k21 n-pentagonal polytope
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