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Generalised Helly and Radon numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Krzysztof Kolodziejczyk
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Technical University of Wroclaw, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50–370 Wroclaw, Poland
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At the Second Oklahoma Conference on Convexity and Related Combinatorial Geometry (1980) G.Sierksma posed several problems dealing with the generalised Helly and Radon numbers of a convexity space. The aim of this note is to give answers to and comment on some of Sierksma's questions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1991

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