Relational Galois connections between transitive digraphs: Characterization and construction
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This paper focuses on a twofold relational generalization of the notion of Galois connection. It is twofold because it is defined between sets endowed with arbitrary transitive relations and, moreover, both components of the connection are relations, not necessarily functions. A characterization theorem of the notion of relational Galois connection is provided and, then, it is proved that a suitable notion of closure can be obtained within this framework. Finally, we state a necessary and sufficient condition that allows to build a relational Galois connection starting from a single transitive digraph and a single binary relation.
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[Cab+20] I. P. Cabrera, P. Cordero, E. Muñoz-Velasco, et al. “Relational Galois connections between transitive digraphs: Characterization and construction”. In: Information Sciences 519 (2020). Cited by: 8; All Open Access, Green Open Access, p. 439 – 450. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2020.01.034. URL: [https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079160299&doi=10.1016
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