Thickness of families of sets and a minimax lemma

✍ Scribed by Vlastimil Pták

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 108
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-365X
• DOI: 10.1016/0012-365x(92)90672-3

✦ Synopsis

A dual expression

for the thickness of a family of sets is given. The thickness is a numerical characteristic of families of sets introduced in LeSanovsky and Ptak (1986). The dual expression is based on a simple combinatorial minimax result.