Let $R$ and $S$ be relations on $A$.

  1. Interaction With Inverses. If $R$ is transitive, then so is $R^{\dagger }$.
  2. Interaction With Composition. If $R$ and $S$ are transitive, then $S\mathbin {\diamond }R$ may fail to be transitive.


Footnotes

[1] Intuition: Transitivity for $R$ and $S$ fails to imply that of $S\mathbin {\diamond }R$ because the composition operation for relations intertwines $R$ and $S$ in an incompatible way:
  1. If $a\sim _{S\mathbin {\diamond }R}c$ and $c\sim _{S\mathbin {\diamond }r}e$, then:
    1. There is some $b\in A$ such that:
      1. $a\sim _{R}b$;
      2. $b\sim _{S}c$;
    2. There is some $d\in A$ such that:
      1. $c\sim _{R}d$;
      2. $d\sim _{S}e$.

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