Definition:Transitive Closure (Set Theory)

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Definition

Definition 1

Let $x$ be a set.

Then the transitive closure of $x$ is the smallest transitive superset of $x$.


The following is not equivalent to the above, but they are almost the same.

Definition 2

Let $x$ be a set.

For each natural number $n \in \N_{\ge 0}$ let:

$\bigcup^n x = \underbrace{\bigcup \bigcup \cdots \bigcup}_n x$


Then the transitive closure of $x$ is the union of the sets:

$\left\{ {x}\right\}, x, \bigcup x, \bigcup^2 x, \dots, \bigcup^n x, \dots$


Notation

The transitive closure may be denoted $\operatorname{TrCl}$.


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