Morris's pigeonhole principle and the Helly theorem for unions of convex sets

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDP024MaRDI QIDQ3395230zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Eckhoff, Klaus-Peter Nischke

Publication date 24 August 2009

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/bdp024

zbMATH Keywords

generalized pigeonhole principleHelly-type theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partitions of sets (05A18) Axiomatic and generalized convexity (52A01) Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35)

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