On the cardinality of relations

  • Authors:
  • Yasuo Kawahara

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, Kyushu University 33, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • RelMiCS'06/AKA'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science, and 4th international conference on Applications of Kleene Algebra
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper will discuss and characterise the cardinality of boolean (crisp) and fuzzy relations. The main result is a Dedekind inequality for the cardinality, which enables us to manipulate the cardinality of the composites of relations. As applications a few relational proofs for the basic theorems on graph matchings, and fundamentals about network flows will be given.