Paracompact uniform honeycombs
In geometry, uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space are tessellations of convex uniform polyhedron cells. In 3-dimensional hyperbolic space there are 23 Coxeter group families of paracompact uniform honeycombs, generated as Wythoff constructions, and represented by ring permutations of the Coxeter diagrams for each family. These families can produce uniform honeycombs with infinite or unbounded facets or vertex figure, including ideal vertices at infinity, similar to the hyperbolic uniform tilings in 2-dimensions.
Regular paracompact honeycombs
Of the uniform paracompact H3 honeycombs, 11 are regular, meaning that their group of symmetries acts transitively on their flags. These have Schläfli symbol,,,,,,,,,, and, and are shown below. Four have finite Ideal polyhedral cells:,,, and.| Name | Schläfli Symbol | Coxeter | Cell type | Face type | Edge figure | Vertex figure | Dual | Coxeter group |
| Order-6 tetrahedral honeycomb | tetrahedron| | triangular tiling| | ||||||
| Hexagonal tiling honeycomb | hexagonal tiling| | tetrahedron| | ||||||
| Order-4 octahedral honeycomb | octahedron| | square tiling| | ||||||
| Square tiling honeycomb | square tiling| | cube| | ||||||
| Triangular tiling honeycomb | triangular tiling| | hexagonal tiling| | Self-dual | |||||
| Order-6 cubic honeycomb | Cube| | octahedron| | ||||||
| Order-4 hexagonal tiling honeycomb | hexagonal tiling| | Octahedron| | ||||||
| Order-4 square tiling honeycomb | square tiling| | square tiling| | Self-dual | |||||
| Order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb | dodecahedron| | hexagonal tiling| | ||||||
| Order-5 hexagonal tiling honeycomb | hexagonal tiling| | icosahedron| | ||||||
| Order-6 hexagonal tiling honeycomb | hexagonal tiling| | triangular tiling| | Self-dual |
Coxeter groups of paracompact uniform honeycombs
This is a complete enumeration of the 151 unique Wythoffian paracompact uniform honeycombs generated from tetrahedral fundamental domains. The honeycombs are indexed here for cross-referencing duplicate forms, with brackets around the nonprimary constructions.The alternations are listed, but are either repeats or don't generate uniform solutions. Single-hole alternations represent a mirror removal operation. If an end-node is removed, another simplex family is generated. If a hole has two branches, a Vinberg polytope is generated, although only Vinberg polytope with mirror symmetry are related to the simplex groups, and their uniform honeycombs have not been systematically explored. These nonsimplectic Coxeter groups are not enumerated on this page, except as special cases of half groups of the tetrahedral ones.
The complete list of nonsimplectic paracompact Coxeter groups was published by P. Tumarkin in 2003. The smallest paracompact form in H3 can be represented by or, or which can be constructed by a mirror removal of paracompact hyperbolic group as : =. The doubled fundamental domain changes from a tetrahedron into a quadrilateral pyramid. Another pyramid is or, constructed as = : =.
Removing a mirror from some of the cyclic hyperbolic Coxeter graphs become bow-tie graphs: = or, = or, = or. =, =, =.
Another nonsimplectic half groups is ↔.
A radical nonsimplectic subgroup is ↔, which can be doubled into a triangular prism domain as ↔.
| Dimension | Rank | Graphs |
| H3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Linear graphs
6,3,3 family
6,3,4 family
There are 15 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or6,3,5 family
6,3,6 family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or3,6,3 family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or4,4,3 family
There are 15 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or4,4,4 family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or.Tridental graphs
3,41,1 family
There are 11 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:4,41,1 family
There are 7 forms,, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:6,31,1 family
There are 11 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: or.Cyclic graphs
(4,4,3,3) family
There are 11 forms, 4 unique to this family, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:, with ↔.(4,4,4,3) family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:.(4,4,4,4) family
There are 5 forms, 1 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:. Repeat constructions are related as: ↔, ↔, and ↔.(6,3,3,3) family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:.(6,3,4,3) family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:(6,3,5,3) family
There are 9 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:(6,3,6,3) family
There are 6 forms, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:.Loop-n-tail graphs
3,3[3] family
There are 11 forms, 4 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: ] or. 7 are half symmetry forms of : ↔.4,3[3] family
There are 11 forms, 4 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: ] or. 7 are half symmetry forms of : ↔.5,3[3] family
There are 11 forms, 4 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: ] or. 7 are half symmetry forms of : ↔.6,3[3] family
There are 11 forms, 4 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group: ] or. 7 are half symmetry forms of : ↔.Multicyclic graphs
3[ × ] family
There are 8 forms, 1 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:. Two are duplicated as ↔, two as ↔, and three as ↔.3[3,3] family
There are 4 forms, 0 unique, generated by ring permutations of the Coxeter group:. They are repeated in four families: ↔ ,↔ ,
↔ , and
↔ .
| # | Name Coxeter diagram | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | vertex figure | Picture |
| hexagonal ↔ | Tetrahedron| | ||||||
| rectified order-6 hexagonal ↔ | t | ||||||
| triangular tiling honeycomb = | - | t | |||||
| rectified triangular ↔ | t |
| # | Name Coxeter diagram | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Alt | vertex figure | Picture |
| alternated hexagonal = | s | s | s | s | tetrahedron| | | - |