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arxiv: math/0307171 · v1 · submitted 2003-07-11 · 🧮 math.MG · math.CO

Once more about the 52 four-dimensional parallelotopes

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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 $\{3,4,3\}$. 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 $\{3,4,3\}$ 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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