| 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 8725 "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 39737,
dfeqvrels2 39741, dfeqvrels3 39742 and df-eqvrel 39738, dfeqvrel2 39743, dfeqvrel3 39744
are fully transparent in this regard. However, they lack the domain
component (dom 𝑅 = 𝐴) of the present df-er 8725. While we acknowledge
the need of a domain component, the present df-er 8725 definition does not
utilize the results revealed by the new theorems in the
Partition-Equivalence Theorem part below (like pets 40035
and pet 40034). From
those theorems follows that the natural domain of equivalence relations is
not 𝑅Domain𝐴 (i.e. dom 𝑅 = 𝐴 see brdomaing 36821),
but 𝑅
DomainQss 𝐴 (i.e.
(dom 𝑅
/ 𝑅) = 𝐴, see brdmqss 39799), see
erimeq 39833 vs. prter3 40076.
While I'm sure we need both equivalence relation df-eqvrels 39737 and
equivalence relation on domain quotient df-ers 39817, 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 39737 and df-ers 39817 are enough and
named the predicate version of the one on domain quotient as the alternate
version df-erALTV 39818 of the present df-er 8725. (Contributed by Peter Mazsa,
26-Jun-2021.) |