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Are there centrally-symmetric self-dual polytopes in dimension $d> 4$?

A convex polytope $P\subset\Bbb R^d$ is centrally symmetric if $-P=P$. It is self-dual (or better, self-polar?) if its polar dual $P^\circ$ is congruent to $P$, that is, there is a map $X\in\mathrm O(\smash{\Bbb R^d})$ with $\smash{P^\circ}=XP$.

Question: Are there centrally symmetric self-dual polytopes in dimension $d>4$?

Such exist in dimension $d=2$ and $d=4$:

  • for $d=2$ we have the regular 2n-gons,
  • for $d=4$ we have the regular 24-cell.
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