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A decision procedure using the geometry of convex sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Peter W. Aitchison
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Gabor T. Herman
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.
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Let Zn denote the set of all ordered n-tuples of integers. Let us call any finite subset of Zn a body in Zn, and any finite set of bodies in Zn a family in Zn.

Consider the following problem:

Give a decision procedure which for any family ℱ in Zn decides the following.

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Copyright © University College London 1974

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