[EM] Who defined the Smith set
James Green-Armytage
jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Wed Feb 16 13:47:48 PST 2005
>
>The Smith set certainly has lots of names. It´s the Smith set, the
>minimal
>dominant set, and now the GeTCha set too.
Yes. GeTChA was Schwartz's term. It's a bit silly, perhaps. I think that
minimal dominant set is the most straightforward, but I can recognize it
by any of the other names as well.
>
>As for the GOCha set the uniion of minimal undominated sets, is that what
>is
>usually called the Schwartz set?
Yes.
>
>Ok, so when you say "minimal dominant set" or "GeTCha set", you´re
>referring to the Smith set, and when you say "GOCha set", you´re
>referring
>to the Schwartz set, right?
Yes.
>
>
>Didn´t you say that Schwartz´s book or article defining the GeTCha set
>was
>written in ´86? But from Markus´s posting, Smith wrote about it in ´73,
>which seem to justify calling it the Smith set.
Yes.
James
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