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Relations

Definitions

  • Cartesian Product of sets

  • Ordered pair

Relation

Let . A relation is a non-empty subset of .

  • Domain of :
  • Codomain of :
  • Range of :
  • Pre-range of :

Everywhere defined

is everywhere defined

.

Onto

is onto

Aka. surjection.

Inverse

Inverse of :

Types of relation

one-many

Not one-many

many-one

Not many-one

many-many

iff is one-many and many-one.

one-one

iff is not one-many and not many-one. Aka. injection.

Bijection

When a relation is onto and one-one.