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Exercise 6.2.4
Which of the following statements are true?
(a) If and are transitive, then is transitive.
(b) If and are transitive, then is transitive.
(c) If and is transitive, then is transitive.
(d) If and is transitive, then is transitive.
(e) If is transitive and , then is transitive.
Answers
(a) We claim that this is true.
Proof. Consider any . If then since is transitive. Since also we clearly have that . We can make the same argument if it is the case that . Hence since was arbitrary this shows that is indeed transitive. □
(b) We claim that this is true.
Proof. Consider any . Then and . Since and are transitive this means that and . So consider any then and so that . Hence since was arbitrary it follows that so that is transitive since was arbitrary. □
(c) We claim that this is not true.
Proof. It was shown in Exercise 6.2.3 part (a) that is transitive. So let so that clearly . If then then but is not a subset of since . Hence the original hypothesis is not true. □
(d) We claim that this is not true.
Proof. Again is transitive so let so that clearly . Then if then but is not a subset of because . Thus the original hypothesis is false. □
(e) We claim that this is true.
Proof. Consider any . If then since is transitive . Hence . On the other hand if then since Hence . Since in all cases and was arbitrary this shows that is transitive by definition. □