gammoid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.
adj
  1. Shaped like a gamma.

Word forms

gammoid gammoids more gammoid most gammoid

Etymology

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

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