Diagonal intersection
Diagonal intersection is a term used in mathematics, especially in set theory.
If is an ordinal number and
is a sequence of subsets of, then the diagonal intersection, denoted by
is defined to be
That is, an ordinal is in the diagonal intersection if and only if it is contained in the first members of the sequence. This is the same as
where the closed interval from 0 to is used to
avoid restricting the range of the intersection.
