- Quasitransitive relation
Quasitransitivity is a weakened version of transitivity that is used in
social choice theory ormicroeconomics . Informally, a relation is quasitransitive if it is symmetric for some values and transitive elsewhere.Formal definition
A
binary relation T over a set "X" is quasitransitive if for all "a", "b", and "c" in "X" the following holds::
If the relation is also antisymmetric, T is transitive.
Alternately, for a relation T, define the asymmetric part P::
Then T is quasitransitive iff P is transitive.
Examples
Preference s are assumed to be quasitransitive (rather than transitive) in some economic contexts. The classic example is a person indifferent between 10 and 11 grams of sugar and indifferent between 11 and 12 grams of sugar, but who prefers 12 grams of sugar to 10.ee also
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Intransitivity
*Reflexive relation
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