Skip to main content
2 of 2
Fixed typo
Daniel Sebald
  • 2.8k
  • 6
  • 19

Expanded 24-simplices in the Leech polytope

The vertex coordinate set for the contact polytope of the Leech lattice listed on Wikipedia contains all permutations of:

  • $\{4,-4,0^{22}\}$
  • $\{-3,1^{23}\}$
  • $\{3,-1^{23}\}$

The convex hull of these 600 vertices is an expanded 24-simplex, meaning that there is a compound of expanded 24-simplices using the vertices and long edges of the Leech lattice’s contact polytope. How many expanded simplices are in this compound?

Daniel Sebald
  • 2.8k
  • 6
  • 19