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- From: west@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Douglas West)
- Subject: Re: Incident: definition?
- References: <1992Oct14.202215.13337@sophia.smith.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:39:08 GMT
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- orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
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- >Is there a generally-accepted definition of the term "incident"
- >that works in several contexts? An arc of a graph (x,y) is
- >incident to the nodes x and y. An edge of an arrangement of
- >lines is incident to a vertex if that vertex is an endpoint of
- >the closure of the edge. Note in this last case, incidence does
- >not imply nonempty intersection, because arrangement edges
- >are usually considered open segments. Are adjacent faces of
- >a polytope considered incident? I think not.
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- Since intersecting edges of a graph are called incident, why not
- intersecting faces of a polytope (perhaps with high-dimensional intersection)?
- The membership relation between a collection of sets and their elements
- is also called an incidence relation.
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