Fully reducible simple Venn diagrams

Abstract

We generalize Venn diagrams in spaces of arbitrary dimension $\geq 2$ and study simple Venn diagrams with the reducing property. Three equivalent conditions for a simple Venn diagram to reduce it completely and a classification of those diagrams is discussed. For example, we show that a simple $m$-dimensional $n$-Venn diagram is fully reducible if $n\leq m+1$ and conjecture that the converse is also true. An application of the generalized Venn diagrams and some more open problems are given.