Grand Antiprism and Quaternions

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2009-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/0906.2117v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor 42, 2009, 495201

Physics

Mathematical Physics

21 pages, 12 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/42/49/495201

Vertices of the 4-dimensional semi-regular polytope, the \textit{grand antiprism} and its symmetry group of order 400 are represented in terms of quaternions with unit norm. It follows from the icosian representation of the \textbf{$E_{8} $} root system which decomposes into two copies of the root system of $H_{4} $. The symmetry of the \textit{grand antiprism} is a maximal subgroup of the Coxeter group $W(H_{4})$. It is the group $Aut(H_{2} \oplus H'_{2})$ which is constructed in terms of 20 quaternionic roots of the Coxeter diagram $H_{2} \oplus H'_{2}$. The root system of $H_{4} $ represented by the binary icosahedral group \textit{I}of order 120, constitutes the regular 4D polytope 600-cell. When its 20 quaternionic vertices corresponding to the roots of the diagram $H_{2} \oplus H'_{2}$ are removed from the vertices of the 600-cell the remaining 100 quaternions constitute the vertices of the\textit{grand antiprism}. We give a detailed analysis of the construction of the cells of the\textit{grand antiprism} in terms of quaternions. The dual polytope of the \textit{grand antiprism} has been also constructed.

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