Homogeneous relation
Template:Short description In mathematics, a homogeneous relation (also called endorelation) on a set X is a binary relation between X and itself, i.e. it is a subset of the Cartesian product X × XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[1][2][3] This is commonly phrased as "a relation on X"[4] or "a (binary) relation over X".[5][6] An example of a homogeneous relation is the relation of kinship, where the relation is between people.
Common types of endorelations include orders, graphs, and equivalences. Specialized studies of order theory and graph theory have developed understanding of endorelations. Terminology particular for graph theory is used for description, with an ordinary (undirected) graph presumed to correspond to a symmetric relation, and a general endorelation corresponding to a directed graph. An endorelation R corresponds to a logical matrix of 0s and 1s, where the expression xRy (x is R-related to y) corresponds to an edge between x and y in the graph, and to a 1 in the square matrix of R. It is called an adjacency matrix in graph terminology.
Particular homogeneous relations
Some particular homogeneous relations over a set X (with arbitrary elements x1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., x2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) are:
- Empty relation
- E = ∅Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".;
that is, x1Ex2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". holds never;
- E = ∅Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".;
- Universal relation
- U = X × XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".;
that is, x1Ux2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". holds always;
- U = X × XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".;
- Identity relation (see also Identity function)
- I = {(x, x) | x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".};
that is, x1Ix2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". holds if and only if x1 = x2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- I = {(x, x) | x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".};
Example
Sixteen large tectonic plates of the Earth's crust contact each other in a homogeneous relation. The relation can be expressed as a logical matrix with 1 (depicted "File:Green check.svg") indicating contact and 0 ("File:Dark Red x.svg") no contact. This example expresses a symmetric relation.
Properties
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Some important properties that a homogeneous relation Template:Mvar over a set Template:Mvar may have are:
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- for all x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., xRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. For example, ≥ is a reflexive relation but > is not.
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- for all x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., not xRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. For example, > is an irreflexive relation, but ≥ is not.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then x = yScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[7] For example, the relation over the integers in which each odd number is related to itself is a coreflexive relation. The equality relation is the only example of a both reflexive and coreflexive relation, and any coreflexive relation is a subset of the identity relation.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then xRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then yRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then xRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and yRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. A relation is quasi-reflexive if, and only if, it is both left and right quasi-reflexive.
The previous 6 alternatives are far from being exhaustive; e.g., the binary relation xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". defined by y = x2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is neither irreflexive, nor coreflexive, nor reflexive, since it contains the pair (0, 0)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., and (2, 4)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., but not (2, 2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., respectively. The latter two facts also rule out (any kind of) quasi-reflexivity.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. For example, "is a blood relative of" is a symmetric relation, because Template:Mvar is a blood relative of Template:Mvar if and only if Template:Mvar is a blood relative of Template:Mvar.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then x = yScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. For example, ≥ is an antisymmetric relation; so is >, but vacuously (the condition in the definition is always false).[8]
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then not yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. A relation is asymmetric if and only if it is both antisymmetric and irreflexive.[9] For example, > is an asymmetric relation, but ≥ is not.
Again, the previous 3 alternatives are far from being exhaustive; as an example over the natural numbers, the relation xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". defined by x > 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is neither symmetric nor antisymmetric, let alone asymmetric.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. A transitive relation is irreflexive if and only if it is asymmetric.[10] For example, "is ancestor of" is a transitive relation, while "is parent of" is not.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then never xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- if the complement of R is transitive. That is, for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., then xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. This is used in pseudo-orders in constructive mathematics.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but neither yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". nor zRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., then xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but not zRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar are incomparable with respect to Template:Mvar and if the same is true of Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar, then Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar are also incomparable with respect to Template:Mvar. This is used in weak orderings.
Again, the previous 5 alternatives are not exhaustive. For example, the relation xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". if (y = 0Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or y = x+1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) satisfies none of these properties. On the other hand, the empty relation trivially satisfies all of them.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". such that xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there exists some z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". such that xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and zRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. This is used in dense orders.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if x ≠ yScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. This property is sometimesScript error: No such module "Unsubst". called "total", which is distinct from the definitions of "left/right-total" given below.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. This property, too, is sometimesScript error: No such module "Unsubst". called "total", which is distinct from the definitions of "left/right-total" given below.
- Template:Em
- for all x, y ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., exactly one of xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or x = yScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". holds. For example, > is a trichotomous relation on the real numbers, while the relation "divides" over the natural numbers is not.[11]
- Template:Em (or just Template:Em)
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. For example, = is a Euclidean relation because if x = yScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and x = zScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then y = zScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- for all x, y, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and zRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then yRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- every nonempty subset Template:Mvar of Template:Mvar contains a minimal element with respect to Template:Mvar. Well-foundedness implies the descending chain condition (that is, no infinite chain ... xnR...Rx3Rx2Rx1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". can exist). If the axiom of dependent choice is assumed, both conditions are equivalent.[12][13]
Moreover, all properties of binary relations in general also may apply to homogeneous relations:
- Template:Em
- for all x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the class of all Template:Mvar such that yRxScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is a set. (This makes sense only if relations over proper classes are allowed.)
- Template:Em
- for all x, z ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and all y ∈ YScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and zRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then x = zScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..
- Template:Em
- for all x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and all y, z ∈ YScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., if xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and xRzScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". then y = zScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[14]
- Template:Em (also called left-total)
- for all x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". there exists a y ∈ YScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". such that xRyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. This property is different from the definition of connected (also called total by some authors).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Template:Em (also called right-total)
- for all y ∈ YScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there exists an x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". such that xRy.
A Template:Em is a relation that is reflexive and transitive. A Template:Em, also called Template:Em or Template:Em, is a relation that is reflexive, transitive, and connected.
A Template:Em, also called Template:Em,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". is a relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive. A Template:Em, also called Template:Em,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". is a relation that is irreflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive. A Template:Em, also called Template:Em, Template:Em, or Template:Em, is a relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive and connected.[15] A Template:Em, also called Template:Em, Template:Em, or Template:Em, is a relation that is irreflexive, antisymmetric, transitive and connected.
A Template:Em is a relation that is symmetric and transitive. An Template:Em is a relation that is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. It is also a relation that is symmetric, transitive, and total, since these properties imply reflexivity.
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Operations
If R is a homogeneous relation over a set X then each of the following is a homogeneous relation over X:
- Template:Em, R=
- Defined as R= = {(x, x) | x ∈ X} ∪ RScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or the smallest reflexive relation over X containing R. This can be proven to be equal to the intersection of all reflexive relations containing R.
- Template:Em, R≠
- Defined as R≠ = R \ {(x, x) | x ∈ XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".} or the largest irreflexive relation over X contained in R.
- Template:Em, R+
- Defined as the smallest transitive relation over X containing R. This can be seen to be equal to the intersection of all transitive relations containing R.
- Template:Em, R*
- Defined as R* = (R+)=Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the smallest preorder containing R.
- Template:Em, R≡
- Defined as the smallest equivalence relation over X containing R.
All operations defined in Template:Section link also apply to homogeneous relations.
Homogeneous relations by property Reflexivity Symmetry Transitivity Connectedness Symbol Example Directed graph → Undirected graph Symmetric Dependency Reflexive Symmetric Tournament Irreflexive Asymmetric Pecking order Preorder Reflexive Transitive ≤ Preference Total preorder Reflexive Transitive Connected ≤ Partial order Reflexive Antisymmetric Transitive ≤ Subset Strict partial order Irreflexive Asymmetric Transitive < Strict subset Total order Reflexive Antisymmetric Transitive Connected ≤ Alphabetical order Strict total order Irreflexive Asymmetric Transitive Connected < Strict alphabetical order Partial equivalence relation Symmetric Transitive Equivalence relation Reflexive Symmetric Transitive ~, ≡ Equality
Enumeration
The set of all homogeneous relations over a set X is the set 2X×XScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., which is a Boolean algebra augmented with the involution of mapping of a relation to its converse relation. Considering composition of relations as a binary operation on , it forms a monoid with involution where the identity element is the identity relation.[16]
The number of distinct homogeneous relations over an n-element set is 2n2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (sequence A002416 in the OEIS):
| ElemTemplate:Soft hyphenents | Any | Transitive | Reflexive | Symmetric | Preorder | Partial order | Total preorder | Total order | Equivalence relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 512 | 171 | 64 | 64 | 29 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 5 |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | 355 | 219 | 75 | 24 | 15 |
| n | 2n2 | 2n(n−1) | 2n(n+1)/2 | ∑Script error: No such module "Su". k!S(n, k) | n! | ∑Script error: No such module "Su". S(n, k) | |||
| OEIS | A002416 | A006905 | A053763 | A006125 | A000798 | A001035 | A000670 | A000142 | A000110 |
Note that S(n, k) refers to Stirling numbers of the second kind.
Notes:
- The number of irreflexive relations is the same as that of reflexive relations.
- The number of strict partial orders (irreflexive transitive relations) is the same as that of partial orders.
- The number of strict weak orders is the same as that of total preorders.
- The total orders are the partial orders that are also total preorders. The number of preorders that are neither a partial order nor a total preorder is, therefore, the number of preorders, minus the number of partial orders, minus the number of total preorders, plus the number of total orders: 0, 0, 0, 3, and 85, respectively.
- The number of equivalence relations is the number of partitions, which is the Bell number.
The homogeneous relations can be grouped into pairs (relation, complement), except that for n = 0Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the relation is its own complement. The non-symmetric ones can be grouped into quadruples (relation, complement, inverse, inverse complement).
Examples
- Order relations, including strict orders:
- Greater than
- Greater than or equal to
- Less than
- Less than or equal to
- Divides (evenly)
- Subset of
- Equivalence relations:
- Equality
- Parallel with (for affine spaces)
- Equinumerosity or "is in bijection with"
- Isomorphic
- Equipollent line segments
- Tolerance relation, a reflexive and symmetric relation:
- Dependency relation, a finite tolerance relation
- Independency relation, the complement of some dependency relation
- Kinship relations
Generalizations
- A binary relation in general need not be homogeneous, it is defined to be a subset R ⊆ X × Y for arbitrary sets X and Y.
- A finitary relation is a subset R ⊆ X1 × ... × Xn for some natural number n and arbitrary sets X1, ..., Xn, it is also called an n-ary relation.
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Lemma 1.1 (iv). This source refers to asymmetric relations as "strictly antisymmetric".
- ↑ Since neither 5 divides 3, nor 3 divides 5, nor 3=5.
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- ↑ Gunther Schmidt & Thomas Strohlein (2012)[1987] Template:Trim&pg=PA54 Relations and Graphs, p. 54, at Google Books
- ↑ Joseph G. Rosenstein, Linear orderings, Academic Press, 1982, Template:ISBN, p. 4
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