Finite convex geometries #
This file proves the finite extreme-point and unique-basis consequences of anti-exchange used in the manuscript.
A generating set is inclusion-minimal when no one-point deletion still generates the same closed set. For closure operators this is equivalent to ordinary inclusion-minimality.
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One-point deletion minimality is equivalent to ordinary inclusion-minimality among generating sets.
Anti-exchange can be iterated over a finite set: if all points of Y
are available after adding b to a closed set K, then adjoining all of
Y without b still cannot regenerate b.
Every closed set on a finite ground type has an inclusion-minimal generating set.
A one-point-minimal generator is the set of extreme points. This is the finite anti-exchange core of uniqueness of minimal generators.
The extreme points form the unique minimal generating set of a closed set in a finite anti-exchange closure system.
Every nonempty closed set in a finite convex geometry has an extreme point.
A proper inclusion of finite closed sets admits a legal one-point deletion of the upper set which stays above the lower set.
Accessibility in interval form: a proper inclusion of finite closed sets can be shortened by deleting one extreme point from the upper set.