| Description: Define the class of
equivalence relations on domain quotients (or: domain
quotients restricted to equivalence relations).
The present definition of equivalence relation in set.mm df-er 8635 "is not
standard", "somewhat cryptic", has no constant 0-ary class
and does not
follow the traditional transparent reflexive-symmetric-transitive relation
way of definition of equivalence. Definitions df-eqvrels 38841,
dfeqvrels2 38845, dfeqvrels3 38846 and df-eqvrel 38842, dfeqvrel2 38847, dfeqvrel3 38848
are fully transparent in this regard. However, they lack the domain
component (dom 𝑅 = 𝐴) of the present df-er 8635. While we acknowledge
the need of a domain component, the present df-er 8635 definition does not
utilize the results revealed by the new theorems in the
Partition-Equivalence Theorem part below (like pets 39111
and pet 39110). From
those theorems follows that the natural domain of equivalence relations is
not 𝑅Domain𝐴 (i.e. dom 𝑅 = 𝐴 see brdomaing 36127),
but 𝑅
DomainQss 𝐴 (i.e.
(dom 𝑅
/ 𝑅) = 𝐴, see brdmqss 38904), see
erimeq 38938 vs. prter3 39142.
While I'm sure we need both equivalence relation df-eqvrels 38841 and
equivalence relation on domain quotient df-ers 38922, I'm not sure whether we
need a third equivalence relation concept with the present dom 𝑅 = 𝐴
component as well: this needs further investigation. As a default I
suppose that these two concepts df-eqvrels 38841 and df-ers 38922 are enough and
named the predicate version of the one on domain quotient as the alternate
version df-erALTV 38923 of the present df-er 8635. (Contributed by Peter Mazsa,
26-Jun-2021.) |