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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorRodMcGuire
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2017
    • (edited Jul 4th 2017)

    I see Noam Zeilberger has been updating partition.

    That article yet has to mention how a partition is just a quotient object but I’m not sure how to integrate this.

    At the section the_lattice_of_partitions_of_a_finite_set I would like to add something like the following but I hesitate because I might conflict with Noam’s further intents and it really needs to be better worded and stated more precisely. Also something should probably be said about coatomisticy.


    The lattice of partions of a set SS of size nn, Π(S)\Pi(S), is atomistic. An atom corresponds to a single equality. It contain a two element set as one block while all other blocks are singletons. Thus Π(S)\Pi(S) has n*(n1)/2n * (n - 1) / 2 atoms.

    Being atomistic means that any partition π\pi is the meet of its set of atoms: π=atoms(π)\pi = \bigvee atoms(\pi).

    In terms of atoms, the meet of partitions corresponds to the intersection of their atoms: atoms(πρ)=atoms(π)atoms(ρ)atoms(\pi \wedge \rho) = atoms(\pi) \cap atoms(\rho),

    For the join of partitions new atoms may emerge through transitive closure and thus we have

    atoms(πρ)=transClos(atoms(π)atoms(ρ))atoms(\pi \vee \rho) = transClos(atoms(\pi) \cup atoms(\rho))

    where if {a,b}atoms(π\{a, b\} \in atoms(\pi) and {b,c}atoms(ρ)\{b, c\} \in atoms(\rho) then {a,c}atoms(πρ)\{a, c\} \in atoms(\pi \vee \rho) .

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2017

    That article yet has to mention how a partition is just a quotient object

    Isn’t it said right there under “Of sets”?

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorRodMcGuire
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2017

    That article yet has to mention how a partition is just a quotient object

    Isn’t it said right there under “Of sets”?

    Huh? Where is quotient object mentioned or linked to that article?

    With my “integration” comment I was more concerned with whether all non-set use of “partition” also correspond to quotient objects.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2017

    Quotient objects of SS are given by surjections out of SS. (I didn’t know you were being so literal.)

    To be on the safe side: the quotient objects are more accurately described as regular quotient objects (they’re the same thing in SetSet of course). For categories of algebras over SetSet, there is again a bijective correspondence between congruence equivalence relations and regular quotients. The concept of exact category is a useful context where this is generalized.

  1. Rod, I did not have any big plans, so feel free to add/edit however you see fit. I started thinking a bit about the lattice of noncrossing partitions, but I don’t understand it well enough to write anything yet.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2021
    • (edited Jun 3rd 2021)

    I have touched the subsection “Of numbers”, making some small cosmetic changes:

    • renamed to “Of natural numbers”

    • hyperlinked partition function

    • made the relation to Young diagrams more explicit

    • disentangled the discussion of relation to partitions of sets

    • made sub-subsections to make all this more readily visible

    diff, v13, current

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorJ-B Vienney
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2022

    Added redirection from composition

    diff, v14, current