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9-simplex

Convex regular 9-polytope

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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.

01Coordinates

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

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ {\sqrt {1/6}},\ {\sqrt {1/3}},\ \pm 1\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ {\sqrt {1/6}},\ -2{\sqrt {1/3}},\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ {\sqrt {1/10}},\ -{\sqrt {3/2}},\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ {\sqrt {1/15}},\ -2{\sqrt {2/5}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ {\sqrt {1/21}},\ -{\sqrt {5/3}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ {\sqrt {1/28}},\ -{\sqrt {12/7}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ 1/6,\ -{\sqrt {7/4}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left({\sqrt {1/45}},\ -4/3,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

$\left(-3{\sqrt {1/5}},\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0,\ 0\right)$

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.

02Images

Orthographic projections
A_k Coxeter plane	A₉	A₈	A₇	A₆
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[10]	[9]	[8]	[7]
A_k Coxeter plane	A₅	A₄	A₃	A₂
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[6]	[5]	[4]	[3]

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