Helly dimension
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Eduard Helly.
Noun
editHelly dimension (plural Helly dimensions)
- (combinatorics) A value associated with a metric space, being one less than the Helly number of the family of metric balls in that space.
- Helly's theorem implies that the Helly dimension of a Euclidean space equals its dimension as a real vector space.