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Domination and Closure

Combinatorics 2015-01-14 v1

Abstract

An expansive, monotone operator is dominating; if it is also idempotent it is a closure operator. Although they have distinct properties, these two kinds of discrete operators are also intertwined. Every closure operator is dominating; every dominating operator embodies a closure. Both can be the basis of continuous set transformations. Dominating operators that exhibit categorical pull-back constitute a Galois connection and must be antimatroid closure operators. Applications involving social networks and learning spaces are suggested

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@article{arxiv.1501.03072,
  title  = {Domination and Closure},
  author = {John L. Pfaltz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.03072},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages. 1 figure

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