Definition:Simplex/Definition 2

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Definition

A simplex $S$ in $\R^n$ with vertices $\family {\alpha_i}_{i \mathop = 0}^n$ is a set such that:

$S = \set {\ds \sum_{i \mathop = 0}^n \theta_i \alpha_i}$

where:

$\sequence {\alpha_i}_{i \mathop = 0}^n$ is a sequence of $n + 1$ affinely independent points in $\R^n$
$\sequence {\theta_i}_{i \mathop = 0}^n$ is a sequence of arbitrary real numbers such that:
$\forall i \in \set {0, 1, 2, \ldots, n}: \theta_i \in \closedint 0 1$
$\ds \sum_{i \mathop = 0}^n \theta_i = 1$


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