It is created by a Wythoff construction upon a set of 7 hyperplane mirrors in 6-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram,          .

Removing a node on the end of one of the 2-node branches leaves the 2₂₁, its only facet type,          

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes 1₂₂,        .

The edge figure is the vertex figure of the vertex figure, here being a birectified 5-simplex, t₂{3⁴},      .

The face figure is the vertex figure of the edge figure, here being a triangular duoprism, {3}×{3},    .

Each vertex of this tessellation is the center of a 5-sphere in the densest known packing in 6 dimensions, with kissing number 72, represented by the vertices of its vertex figure 1₂₂.

The 2₂₂ honeycomb's vertex arrangement is called the E₆ lattice.^[1]

The E₆² lattice, with [[3,3,3^2,2]] symmetry, can be constructed by the union of two E₆ lattices:

          ∪          

The E₆^* lattice^[2] (or E₆³) with [[3,3^2,2,2]] symmetry. The Voronoi cell of the E₆^* lattice is the rectified 1₂₂ polytope, and the Voronoi tessellation is a bitruncated 2₂₂ honeycomb.^[3] It is constructed by 3 copies of the E₆ lattice vertices, one from each of the three branches of the Coxeter diagram.

          ∪           ∪           = dual to          .

The ${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{6}}$  group is related to the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {F}}_{4}}$  by a geometric folding, so this honeycomb can be projected into the 4-dimensional 16-cell honeycomb.

The 2₂₂ honeycomb is one of 127 uniform honeycombs (39 unique) with ${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{6}}$  symmetry. 24 of them have doubled symmetry [[3,3,3^2,2]] with 2 equally ringed branches, and 7 have sextupled (3!) symmetry [[3,3^2,2,2]] with identical rings on all 3 branches. There are no regular honeycombs in the family since its Coxeter diagram a nonlinear graph, but the 2₂₂ and birectified 2₂₂ are isotopic, with only one type of facet: 2₂₁, and rectified 1₂₂ polytopes respectively.

Birectified 2₂₂ honeycomb edit

The birectified 2₂₂ honeycomb          , has rectified 1 22 polytope facets,        , and a proprism {3}×{3}×{3} vertex figure.

Its facets are centered on the vertex arrangement of E₆^* lattice, as:

          ∪           ∪          

Construction edit

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram,          .

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes a proprism {3}×{3}×{3},        .

Removing a node on the end of one of the 3-node branches leaves the 1₂₂, its only facet type,        .

Removing a second end node defines 2 types of 5-faces: birectified 5-simplex, 0₂₂ and birectified 5-orthoplex, 0₂₁₁.

Removing a third end node defines 2 types of 4-faces: rectified 5-cell, 0₂₁, and 24-cell, 0₁₁₁.

Removing a fourth end node defines 2 types of cells: octahedron, 0₁₁, and tetrahedron, 0₂₀.

k₂₂ polytopes edit

The 2₂₂ honeycomb, is fourth in a dimensional series of uniform polytopes, expressed by Coxeter as k₂₂ series. The final is a paracompact hyperbolic honeycomb, 3₂₂. Each progressive uniform polytope is constructed from the previous as its vertex figure.

The 2₂₂ honeycomb is third in another dimensional series 2_2k.

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