Stable Set

The term stable set may refer to:

  • The independent set in graph theory, the set of vertices of a graph not directly connected by edges.
  • The stable set in dynamical systems, the set of points leading up to an attractor.
  • The stable set (also known as the Von Neumann-Morgenstern solution) in cooperative games: a set of alternatives satisfying the internal and external stability conditions.

Famous quotes containing the words stable and/or set:

    “You mustn’t look in my novel for the old stable ego of the character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognisable.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Whither I go, thither shall you go too;
    Today will I set forth, tomorrow you.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)