On properties of intersection of α-sets

Abstract

In this paper, we study the properties of α-sets, which are one of the generalizations of convex sets. In the first part of the paper, the equivalence of two definitions of α-sets in the plane is proved. The second part of the work is devoted to the experimental study of the properties of simply connected intersections of α-sets. It follows from the results of numerical experiments that the value α of the measure of nonconvexity in a simply connected intersection of two α-sets can be greater than the initial value of α in intersected sets even when these values are very close to zero. Based on these results, we can hypothesize that, firstly, such an increase in the value of α is possible with an arbitrarily small initial α for intersected sets, secondly, this increase is limited by a linear function of the initial value of α. © 2020 Izvestiya Instituta Matematiki i Informatiki Udmurtskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. All rights reserved.