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indicates that the column's property is always true the row's term (at the very left), while ✗ indicates that the property is not guaranteed in general (it might, or might not, hold). For example, that every equivalence relation is symmetric, but not necessarily antisymmetric, is indicated by in the "Symmetric" column and ✗ in the "Antisymmetric" column, respectively. All definitions tacitly require the homogeneous relation be transitive: for all if and then |
A symmetric relation is a type of binary relation. An example is the relation "is equal to", because if a = b is true then b = a is also true. Formally, a binary relation R over a set X is symmetric if:[1]
where the notation aRb means that (a, b) ∈ R.
If RT represents the converse of R, then R is symmetric if and only if R = RT.[2]
Symmetry, along with reflexivity and transitivity, are the three defining properties of an equivalence relation.[1]
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