-- | See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_relation#Properties>. -- -- Note that these properties do not exhaust all of the possibilities. -- -- As an example over the natural numbers, the relation \(a \# b \) defined by -- \( a > 2 \) is neither symmetric nor antisymmetric, let alone asymmetric. module Test.Relation.Symmetric where import Test.Util -- | \( \forall a, b: (a \# b) \Leftrightarrow (b \# a) \) -- -- For example, "is a blood relative of" is a symmetric relation, because -- A is a blood relative of B if and only if B is a blood relative of A. -- symmetric :: (r -> r -> Bool) -> r -> r -> Bool symmetric (#) a b = (a # b) <==> (b # a) -- | \( \forall a, b: (a \# b) \Rightarrow \neg (b \# a) \) -- -- For example, > is an asymmetric relation, but ≥ is not. -- -- A relation is asymmetric if and only if it is both antisymmetric and irreflexive. -- asymmetric :: (r -> r -> Bool) -> r -> r -> Bool asymmetric (#) a b = (a # b) ==> not (b # a) -- | \( \forall a, b: (a \# b) \wedge (b \# a) \Rightarrow a \equiv b \) -- -- For example, ≥ is an antisymmetric relation; so is >, but vacuously -- (the condition in the definition is always false). -- antisymmetric :: Eq r => (r -> r -> Bool) -> r -> r -> Bool antisymmetric = antisymmetric_on (==) -- | \( \forall a, b: (a \# b) \wedge (b \# a) \Rightarrow a \doteq b \) -- antisymmetric_on :: (r -> r -> Bool) -> (r -> r -> Bool) -> r -> r -> Bool antisymmetric_on (~~) (#) a b = (a # b) && (b # a) ==> (a ~~ b)