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Once more about the 52 four-dimensional parallelotopes

Metric Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

There are several works \cite{De} (and \cite{St}), \cite{En}, \cite{Co} and \cite{Va} enumerating four-dimensional parallelotopes. In this work we give a new enumeration showing that any four-dimensional parallelotope is either a zonotope or the Minkowski sum of a zonotope with the regular 24-cell {3,4,3}\{3,4,3\}. Each zonotopal parallelotope is the Minkowski sum of segments whose generating vectors form a unimodular system. There are exactly 17 four-dimensional unimodular systems. Hence, there are 17 four-dimensional zonotopal parallelotopes. Other 35 four-dimensional parallelotopes are: the regular 24-cell {3,4,3}\{3,4,3\} and 34 sums of the regular parallelotope with non-zero zonotopal parallelotopes. For the nontrivial enumerating of the 34 sums we use a theorem discribing necessary and sufficient conditions when the Minkowski sum of a parallelotope with a segment is a parallelotope.

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@article{arxiv.math/0307171,
  title  = {Once more about the 52 four-dimensional parallelotopes},
  author = {Michel Deza and Viacheslav Grishukhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307171},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages (submitted)

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