Combinatorial properties of nonarchimedean convex sets

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Abstract: We study combinatorial properties of convex sets over arbitrary valued fields. We demonstrate analogs of some classical results for convex sets over the reals (e.g. the fractional Helly theorem and B'ar'any's theorem on points in many simplices), along with some additional properties not satisfied by convex sets over the reals, including finite breadth and VC-dimension. These results are deduced from a simple combinatorial description of modules over the valuation ring in a spherically complete valued field.


The authors focus on the combinatorial study of convex sets over general valued fields, pointing out similarities with the properties of convex sets in the space \(\mathbb{R}^d\). In this setting they obtain analogous of some classical results (for example, the fractional Helly theorem and Bárány's theorem on points in many simplices). On the other hand, new properties about finite breadth and VC dimension are established, that are not satisfied by convex sets over the reals.











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