The paper is concerned with
a generalized type of convexity, which is called l-simplicial convexity. The name is
derived from the simplex with l vertices, an l-simplicial convex set being the union of
all (i− 1)-simplexes with vertices in another set, i varying between 1 and l. The basic
space is a linear one.
For convex sets the l-order (which is a natural number associated to an
l-simplicial convex set) is a decreasing function of l. Several inequalities between
l-and k-orders are established. In doing this the case of a convex set and that of a
non convex set are distinguished.
Besides these inequalities, the main result of the paper is the proof of non
monotonicity of the l-order, given by an example in a 34-dimensionallinear
space.
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