# 6-simplex honeycomb

6-simplex honeycomb
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Type Uniform honeycomb
Family Simplectic honeycomb
Schläfli symbol {3[7]}
Coxeter diagram
6-face types {35} , t1{35}
t2{35}
5-face types {34} , t1{34}
t2{34}
4-face types {33} , t1{33}
Cell types {3,3} , t1{3,3}
Face types {3}
Vertex figure t0,5{35}
Symmetry ${\tilde{A}}_6$×2, [[3[7]]]
Properties vertex-transitive

In six-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 6-simplex honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). The tessellation fills space by 6-simplex, rectified 6-simplex, and birectified 6-simplex facets. These facet types occur in proportions of 1:1:1 respectively in the whole honeycomb.

## A6 lattice

This vertex arrangement is called the A6 lattice or 6-simplex lattice. The 42 vertices of the expanded 6-simplex vertex figure represent the 42 roots of the ${\tilde{A}}_6$ Coxeter group.[1] It is the 6-dimensional case of a simplectic honeycomb. Around each vertex figure are 126 facets: 7+7 6-simplex, 21+21 rectified 6-simplex, 35+35 birectified 6-simplex, with the count distribution from the 8th row of Pascal's triangle.

The A*
6
lattice (also called A7
6
) is the union of seven A6 lattices, and has the vertex arrangement of the dual to the omnitruncated 6-simplex honeycomb, and therefore the Voronoi cell of this lattice is the omnitruncated 6-simplex.

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## Related polytopes and honeycombs

This honeycomb is one of 17 unique uniform honeycombs[2] constructed by the ${\tilde{A}}_6$ Coxeter group, grouped by their extended symmetry of the Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams: