Published July 6, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Group theoretical analysis of 600-cell and 120-cell 4D polytopes with quaternions

  • 1. Department of Physics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 36, Al-Khoud, 123 Muscat (Oman)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Gaziantep University, 27310 Gaziantep (Turkey)

Description

600-cell {3, 3, 5} and 120-cell {5, 3, 3} four-dimensional dual polytopes relevant to quasicrystallography have been studied with the quaternionic representation of the Coxeter group W(H4). The maximal subgroups W(SU(5)):Z2 and W(H3) x Z2 of W(H4) play important roles in the analysis of cell structures of the dual polytopes. In particular, the Weyl-Coxeter group W(SU(4)) is used to determine the tetrahedral cells of the polytope {3, 3, 5}, and the Coxeter group W(H3) is used for the dodecahedral cells of {5, 3, 3}. Using the Lie algebraic techniques in terms of quaternions, we explicitly construct cell structures forming the vertices of the 4D polytopes

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/40/27/013;
PII
S1751-8113(07)43127-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
27
Journal Page Range
p. 7633-7642
ISSN
1751-8121

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38072333
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GROUP THEORY
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS