Hyperrectangle

Hyperrectangle
Orthotope
A rectangular cuboid is a 3-orthotope
TypePrism
Faces2n
Edgesn × 2n−1
Vertices2n
Schläfli symbol{}×{}×···×{} = {}n[1]
Coxeter diagram···
Symmetry group[2n−1], order 2n
Dual polyhedronRectangular n-fusil
Propertiesconvex, zonohedron, isogonal

In geometry, a hyperrectangle (also called a box, hyperbox, or orthotope[2]), is the generalization of a rectangle (a plane figure) and the rectangular cuboid (a solid figure) to higher dimensions. A necessary and sufficient condition is that it is congruent to the Cartesian product of finite intervals. If all of the edges are equal length, it is a hypercube. A hyperrectangle is a special case of a parallelotope.

  1. ^ N.W. Johnson: Geometries and Transformations, (2018) ISBN 978-1-107-10340-5 Chapter 11: Finite symmetry groups, 11.5 Spherical Coxeter groups, p.251
  2. ^ Coxeter, 1973