gammoid

Meanings

Noun

A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.

Adjective

Shaped like a gamma.

Origin

Named by J. H. Mason in a 1972 paper (On a Class of Matroids Arising From Paths in Graphs).

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