Composition of Compatible Closure Operators

Theorem
Let $S$ be a set.

Let $f, g: \powerset S \to \powerset S$ be closure operators on $S$.

Let $\CC_f$ and $\CC_g$ be the sets of closed sets of $S$ with respect to $f$ and $g$ respectively.

For each subset $T$ of $S$, let the following hold:


 * $(1): \quad$ If $T$ is closed with respect to $g$, then $\map f T$ is closed with respect to $g$.
 * That is, if $T \in \CC_g$ then $\map f T \in \CC_g$.


 * $(2): \quad$ If $T$ is closed with respect to $f$, then $\map g T$ is closed with respect to $f$.
 * That is, if $T \in \CC_f$ then $\map g T \in \CC_f$.

Let $\CC_h = \CC_f \cap \CC_g$.

Then:
 * $\CC_h$ induces a closure operator $h$ on $S$


 * $f \circ g = g \circ f = h$, where $\circ$ represents composition of mappings.

Proof
First we show that $\CC_h$ induces a closure operator on $S$.

Let $\AA \subseteq \CC_h$.

By Intersection is Largest Subset:
 * $\AA \subseteq \CC_f$

and:
 * $\AA \subseteq \CC_g$

Thus by Intersection of Closed Sets is Closed/Closure Operator:
 * $\ds \bigcap \AA \in \CC_f$

and
 * $\ds \bigcap \AA \in \CC_g$

Thus by the definition of set intersection:
 * $\ds \bigcap \AA \in \CC_h$

Thus by Closure Operator from Closed Sets, $C_h$ induces a closure operator $h$ on $S$.

Now we will show that $f \circ g = h$.

Having established that, it can be seen that $g \circ f = h$ will hold by reversing the variable names.

Let $T \subseteq S$.

By definition of closed set:
 * $\map f {\map g T} \in \CC_f$
 * $\map g T \in \CC_g$

By the premise:
 * $\map f {\map g T} \in \CC_g$

Thus by definition of set intersection:
 * $\map f {\map g T} \in \CC_f \cap \CC_g = C_h$

So $\map f {\map g T}$ is closed with respect to $h$.

By Set Closure is Smallest Closed Set/Closure Operator:
 * $\map h T \subseteq f {\map g T}$

By definition of closed set:
 * $\map h T \in C_h$

Thus by definition of set intersection:
 * $\map h T \in C_f$

and
 * $\map h T \in C_g$

By Set Closure is Smallest Closed Set/Closure Operator:
 * $\map g T \subseteq \map h T$

By Closure Operator: Axiom $(2)$ $f$ is order-preserving:
 * $\map f {\map g T} \subseteq \map f {\map h T}$

Recall that $\map h T \in C_f$.

By definition of closed set:
 * $\map f {\map h T} = \map h T$

Thus:
 * $\map f {\map g T} \subseteq \map h T$

We have that:
 * $\map h T \subseteq \map f {\map g T}$

So by definition of set equality:
 * $\map h T = \map f {\map g T}$