5-cube penteract (pent)
Type	uniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbol	{4,3,3,3}
Coxeter diagram
4-faces	10	tesseracts
Cells	40	cubes
Faces	80	squares
Edges	80
Vertices	32
Vertex figure	5-cell
Coxeter group	B5, [4,33], order 3840
Dual	5-orthoplex
Base point	(1,1,1,1,1,1)
Circumradius	sqrt(5)/2 = 1.118034
Properties	convex, isogonal regular, Hanner polytope

In five-dimensional geometry, a 5-cube is a name for a five-dimensional hypercube with 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 square faces, 40 cubic cells, and 10 tesseract 4-faces.

It is represented by Schläfli symbol {4,3,3,3} or {4,3³}, constructed as 3 tesseracts, {4,3,3}, around each cubic ridge. It can be called a penteract, a portmanteau of the Greek word pénte, for 'five' (dimensions), and the word tesseract (the 4-cube). It can also be called a regular deca-5-tope or decateron, being a 5-dimensional polytope constructed from 10 regular facets.

Related polytopes

It is a part of an infinite hypercube family. The dual of a 5-cube is the 5-orthoplex, of the infinite family of orthoplexes.

Applying an alternation operation, deleting alternating vertices of the 5-cube, creates another uniform 5-polytope, called a 5-demicube, which is also part of an infinite family called the demihypercubes.

The 5-cube can be seen as an order-3 tesseractic honeycomb on a 4-sphere. It is related to the Euclidean 4-space (order-4) tesseractic honeycomb and paracompact hyperbolic honeycomb order-5 tesseractic honeycomb.

As a configuration

This configuration matrix represents the 5-cube. The rows and columns correspond to vertices, edges, faces, cells, and 4-faces. The diagonal numbers say how many of each element occur in the whole 5-cube. The nondiagonal numbers say how many of the column's element occur in or at the row's element.^[1][2]

${\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{matrix}32&5&10&10&5\\2&80&4&6&4\\4&4&80&3&3\\8&12&6&40&2\\16&32&24&8&10\end{matrix}}\end{bmatrix}}}$

Cartesian coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a 5-cube centered at the origin and having edge length 2 are

(±1,±1,±1,±1,±1),

while this 5-cube's interior consists of all points (x₀, x₁, x₂, x₃, x₄) with -1 < x_i < 1 for all i.

Images

n-cube Coxeter plane projections in the B_k Coxeter groups project into k-cube graphs, with power of two vertices overlapping in the projective graphs.

Orthographic projections

Coxeter plane	B5	B4 / D5	B3 / D4 / A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[10]	[8]	[6]
Coxeter plane	Other	B2	A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[2]	[4]	[4]

More orthographic projections

Wireframe skew direction

B5 Coxeter plane

Graph

Vertex-edge graph.

Perspective projections

A perspective projection 3D to 2D of stereographic projection 4D to 3D of Schlegel diagram 5D to 4D.

Net

4D net of the 5-cube, perspective projected into 3D.

Projection

The 5-cube can be projected down to 3 dimensions with a rhombic icosahedron envelope. There are 22 exterior vertices, and 10 interior vertices. The 10 interior vertices have the convex hull of a pentagonal antiprism. The 80 edges project into 40 external edges and 40 internal ones. The 40 cubes project into golden rhombohedra which can be used to dissect the rhombic icosahedron. The projection vectors are u = {1, φ, 0, -1, φ}, v = {φ, 0, 1, φ, 0}, w = {0, 1, φ, 0, -1}, where φ is the golden ratio, ${\displaystyle {\frac {1+{\sqrt {5}}}{2}}}$.

rhombic icosahedron		5-cube
Perspective	orthogonal

It is also possible to project penteracts into three-dimensional space, similarly to projecting a cube into two-dimensional space.

A 3D perspective projection of a penteract undergoing a simple rotation about the W1-W2 orthogonal plane

A 3D perspective projection of a penteract undergoing a double rotation about the X-W1 and Z-W2 orthogonal planes

Symmetry

The 5-cube has Coxeter group symmetry B₅, abstract structure ${\displaystyle C_{2}\wr S_{5}}$, order 3840, containing 25 hyperplanes of reflection. The Schläfli symbol for the 5-cube, {4,3,3,3}, matches the Coxeter notation symmetry [4,3,3,3].

Prisms

All hypercubes have lower symmetry forms constructed as prisms. The 5-cube has 7 prismatic forms from the lowest 5-orthotope, { }⁵, and upwards as orthogonal edges are constrained to be of equal length. The vertices in a prism are equal to the product of the vertices in the elements. The edges of a prism can be partitioned into the number of edges in an element times the number of vertices in all the other elements.

Description	Schläfli symbol	Coxeter-Dynkin diagram	Vertices	Edges	Coxeter notation Symmetry	Order
5-cube	{4,3,3,3}		32	80	[4,3,3,3]	3840
tesseractic prism	{4,3,3}×{ }		16×2 = 32	64 + 16 = 80	[4,3,3,2]	768
cube-square duoprism	{4,3}×{4}		8×4 = 32	48 + 32 = 80	[4,3,2,4]	384
cube-rectangle duoprism	{4,3}×{ }2		8×22 = 32	48 + 2×16 = 80	[4,3,2,2]	192
square-square duoprism prism	{4}2×{ }		42×2 = 32	2×32 + 16 = 80	[4,2,4,2]	128
square-rectangular parallelepiped duoprism	{4}×{ }3		4×23 = 32	32 + 3×16 = 80	[4,2,2,2]	64
5-orthotope	{ }5		25 = 32	5×16 = 80	[2,2,2,2]	32

Related polytopes

The 5-cube is 5th in a series of hypercube:

Petrie polygon orthographic projections

Line segment	Square	Cube	4-cube	5-cube	6-cube	7-cube	8-cube

The regular skew polyhedron {4,5| 4} can be realized within the 5-cube, with its 32 vertices, 80 edges, and 40 square faces, and the other 40 square faces of the 5-cube become square holes.

This polytope is one of 31 uniform 5-polytopes generated from the regular 5-cube or 5-orthoplex.

B5 polytopes
β5	t1β5	t2γ5	t1γ5	γ5	t0,1β5	t0,2β5	t1,2β5
t0,3β5	t1,3γ5	t1,2γ5	t0,4γ5	t0,3γ5	t0,2γ5	t0,1γ5	t0,1,2β5
t0,1,3β5	t0,2,3β5	t1,2,3γ5	t0,1,4β5	t0,2,4γ5	t0,2,3γ5	t0,1,4γ5	t0,1,3γ5
t0,1,2γ5	t0,1,2,3β5	t0,1,2,4β5	t0,1,3,4γ5	t0,1,2,4γ5	t0,1,2,3γ5	t0,1,2,3,4γ5

References

• H.S.M. Coxeter:
  • Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8, p. 296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
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• Klitzing, Richard. "5D uniform polytopes (polytera) o3o3o3o4x - pent".

External links

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Hypercube". MathWorld.
• Olshevsky, George. "Measure polytope". Glossary for Hyperspace. Archived from the original on 4 February 2007.
• Multi-dimensional Glossary: hypercube Garrett Jones
• Maltsev, Nick E. https://www.asymptotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Cube_5.html