In 7-dimensional geometry, the 3₃₁ honeycomb is a uniform honeycomb, also given by Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3^3,1} and is composed of 3₂₁ and 7-simplex facets, with 56 and 576 of them respectively around each vertex.

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331 honeycomb
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Type	Uniform tessellation
Schläfli symbol	{3,3,3,33,1}
Coxeter symbol	331
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
7-face types	321 {36}
6-face types	221 {35}
5-face types	211 {34}
4-face type	{33}
Cell type	{32}
Face type	{3}
Face figure	031
Edge figure	131
Vertex figure	231
Coxeter group	${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$, [33,3,1]
Properties	vertex-transitive

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It is created by a Wythoff construction upon a set of 8 hyperplane mirrors in 7-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram.

Removing the node on the short branch leaves the 6-simplex facet:

Removing the node on the end of the 3-length branch leaves the 3₂₁ facet:

The vertex figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes 2₃₁ polytope.

The edge figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes 6-demicube (1₃₁).

The face figure is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes rectified 5-simplex (0₃₁).

The cell figure is determined by removing the ringed node of the face figure and ringing the neighboring nodes. This makes tetrahedral prism {}×{3,3}.

Each vertex of this tessellation is the center of a 6-sphere in the densest known packing in 7 dimensions; its kissing number is 126, represented by the vertices of its vertex figure 2₃₁.

The 3₃₁ honeycomb's vertex arrangement is called the E₇ lattice.^[1]

${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$ contains ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$ as a subgroup of index 144.^[2] Both ${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$ and ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{7}}$ can be seen as affine extension from ${\displaystyle A_{7}}$ from different nodes:

The E₇ lattice can also be expressed as a union of the vertices of two A₇ lattices, also called A₇²:

= ∪

The E₇^* lattice (also called E₇²)^[3] has double the symmetry, represented by [[3,3^3,3]]. The Voronoi cell of the E₇^* lattice is the 1₃₂ polytope, and voronoi tessellation the 1₃₃ honeycomb.^[4] The E₇^* lattice is constructed by 2 copies of the E₇ lattice vertices, one from each long branch of the Coxeter diagram, and can be constructed as the union of four A₇^* lattices, also called A₇⁴:

∪ = ∪ ∪ ∪ = dual of .

It is in a dimensional series of uniform polytopes and honeycombs, expressed by Coxeter as 3_k1 series. A degenerate 4-dimensional case exists as 3-sphere tiling, a tetrahedral hosohedron.

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3_k1 dimensional figures

Space	Finite				Euclidean	Hyperbolic
n	4	5	6	7	8	9
Coxeter group	A3A1	A5	D6	E7	${\displaystyle {\tilde {E}}_{7}}$=E7+	${\displaystyle {\bar {T}}_{8}}$=E7++
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry	[3−1,3,1]	[30,3,1]	[[31,3,1]] = [4,3,3,3,3]	[32,3,1]	[33,3,1]	[34,3,1]
Order	48	720	46,080	2,903,040	∞
Graph					-	-
Name	31,-1	310	311	321	331	341

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• 8-polytope
• 1₃₃ honeycomb