Delta allometry: Growth laws for river deltas
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Deltas, delta minors and delta free clutters
For an integer n ≥ 3, the clutter ∆n := { {1, 2}, {1, 3}, . . . , {1, n}, {2, 3, . . . , n} } is called a delta of dimension n, whose members are the lines of a degenerate projective plane. In his seminal paper on non-ideal clutters, Alfred Lehman manifested the role of the deltas as a distinct class of minimally non-ideal clutters [DIMACS, 1990]. A clutter is delta free if it has no delta mino...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2010gl044592