Transversal numbers over subsets of linear spaces
Optimization and Control
2010-10-07 v2 Metric Geometry
Abstract
Let be a subset of . It is an important question in the theory of linear inequalities to estimate the minimal number such that every system of linear inequalities which is infeasible over has a subsystem of at most inequalities which is already infeasible over This number is said to be the Helly number of In view of Helly's theorem, and, by the theorem due to Doignon, Bell and Scarf, We give a common extension of these equalities showing that We show that the fractional Helly number of the space (with the convexity structure induced by ) is at most as long as is finite. Finally we give estimates for the Radon number of mixed integer spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.0948,
title = {Transversal numbers over subsets of linear spaces},
author = {Gennadiy Averkov and Robert Weismantel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0948},
year = {2010}
}