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Quasitransitive relation
Résumé
The mathematical notion of quasitransitivity is a weakened version of transitivity that is used in social choice theory and microeconomics. Informally, a relation is quasitransitive if it is symmetric for some values and transitive elsewhere. The concept was introduced by to study the consequences of Arrow's theorem.
A binary relation T over a set X is quasitransitive if for all a, b, and c in X the following holds:
If the relation is also antisymmetric, T is transitive.
Alternately, for a relation T, define the asymmetric or "strict" part P:
Then T is quasitransitive if and only if P is transitive.
Preferences are assumed to be quasitransitive (rather than transitive) in some economic contexts. The classic example is a person indifferent between 7 and 8 grams of sugar and indifferent between 8 and 9 grams of sugar, but who prefers 9 grams of sugar to 7. Similarly, the Sorites paradox can be resolved by weakening assumed transitivity of certain relations to quasitransitivity.
A relation R is quasitransitive if, and only if, it is the disjoint union of a symmetric relation J and a transitive relation P. J and P are not uniquely determined by a given R; however, the P from the only-if part is minimal.
As a consequence, each symmetric relation is quasitransitive, and so is each transitive relation. Moreover, an antisymmetric and quasitransitive relation is always transitive.
The relation from the above sugar example, {(7,7), (7,8), (7,9), (8,7), (8,8), (8,9), (9,8), (9,9)}, is quasitransitive, but not transitive.
A quasitransitive relation needn't be acyclic: for every non-empty set A, the universal relation A×A is both cyclic and quasitransitive.
A relation is quasitransitive if, and only if, its complement is.
Similarly, a relation is quasitransitive if, and only if, its converse is.
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