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regular polytope

[¦reg·yə·lər ′päl·ə‚tōp]
(mathematics)
A geometric object in multidimensional Euclidean space that is analogous to the regular polygons (in two-dimensional space) and the regular polyhedra (in three-dimensional space).
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Essentially, vertices on the 4-D regular polytope can be projected to be a regular polygon on each of the two orthogonal planes in R4.
A similar stratification can be obtained for any regular polytope, since the isomorphism type of any upper interval [x, [??]] only depends on the rank [rho](x).
For each n [is greater than] 2, one common reason that M([Z.sup.n]), is interesting is that the n-dimensional cube is the only single regular polytope that tessellates [R.sup.n] [Conway and Sloane 1993].
In the 1994 paper I proposed originally that leptons have the symmetries of the 3-D regular polyhedral groups and that quarks have the symmetries of the 4-D regular polytope groups.
For example, there are six regular polytopes in four-dimensions that are the analogues of the Platonic Solids.
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