sábado, 19 de setembro de 2009

Plato is lifeless starting at 6 dimensions I

Although there are many interesting structures with more than 5 dimensions, regular polyhedra are lifeless:
(Except for the Abstract Polytopes, that are still born).




Dimension
Convex
Nonconvex
Convex
Euclidean
tessellations
Convex
hyperbolic
tessellations
Nonconvex
hyperbolic
tessellations
Abstract
Polytopes
1
1 line segment
0
0
0
0
1
2
∞ polygons
∞ star polygons
1
1
0
∞
3
5 Platonic solids
4 Kepler-Poinsot solids
3 tilings
∞
∞
∞
4
6 convex polychora
10 Schläfli-Hess polychora
1 honeycomb
4
0
∞
5
3 convex 5-polytopes
0 nonconvex 5-polytopes
3 tessellations
5
4
∞
6+
3
0
1
0
0


Taking at the periodic table of categories (http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/periodic+table)

It seems to fit the pattern perfectly at 3-Categories.
What other things exist that are 3-Categories?