Solutions to the exercises of 7 Sketches, Chapter 1: 7S Chapter 1 Exercises. Index: Map of Content.
Solution 1.1
- Order: preserves order; does not ( but ).
- Metric: preserves the metric; does not ( but ).
- Addition: preserves addition; does not ().
The moral: “asking which aspects of one wants to preserve under the observation becomes the question what category are you working in?”
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.1 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.4
Take the transitive closure of the union of connections: and give , and the second system adds nothing to the bottom row, so the join is .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.4 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.6
- : two elements, one arrow.
- The 15 partitions of in four rows: bottom ; then the six with one pair ; then the seven with a triple or two pairs ; top . Choose , .
- .
- Yes.
- .
- Yes: and .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.6 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.7
, , , — the join in is OR.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.7 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.10
- True. 2. False: but . 3. True: no integer lies strictly between and .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.10 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.11
- .
- E.g. .
- .
- (tagged by which set they come from).
- .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.11 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.16
- If then ; by the partition axiom distinct labels have disjoint parts, so .
- Pick (parts are nonempty). Since there is with , and by assumption for some . Then , so and .
Hence “same partition up to relabeling” is a well-defined notion.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.16 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.17
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Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.17 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.20
- Connected subsets are nonempty by definition.
- Suppose . For , connectedness gives , and closedness of gives ; symmetrically . So , contradicting .
- For let . is closed (if and then by transitivity/symmetry), connected (if then ), and contains (reflexivity). So lies in some part.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.20 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.24
- The unique function . 2. The unique function . 3–4. The second and third relations are not functions (the second is not deterministic — one element related to two — and neither is total). The first is a function that is neither injective nor surjective; the fourth is a Bijection.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.24 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.25
By Definition 1.22, is a subset such that for every there is a unique with . There are no , so there can be no : . (Categorically: is initial and strict in — any map into it is an isomorphism.)
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.25 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.27
| partition | surjection onto |
|---|---|
| , | |
| , , | |
| , , | |
| , , | |
| , everything |
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.27 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.38
, , , , .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.38 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.40
with iff there is a path : . The parallel arrows and the loop are “useless” from a preorder point of view but do no harm.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.40 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.41
Yes: it is the Hasse diagram of the discrete order iff (a graph with no arrows).
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.41 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.42
Writing , , , , : the five reflexive pairs ; ; .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.42 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.44
Almost: every element is comparable with itself. A discrete preorder is one where and are comparable iff .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.44 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.46
No: e.g. and , so and are incomparable.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.46 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.48
Yes: for all , either or . See Real Numbers.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.48 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.51
: a single point. : . : a square .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.51 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.53
Coarsest: the unique map . Finest: the identity . See Preorder of Partitions.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.53 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.55
Every subset is an upper set: if , the only with is itself, which is in . So contains all subsets and is ordered by inclusion, i.e. .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.55 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.57
The product has six elements: at the bottom; above it; above ; above (diagram in Product Preorder).
Upper sets (14 of them, ordered by inclusion): ; , ; , , ; , , ; , ; ; and all six elements.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.57 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.63
is the cube in Power Set; the chain is ; sends , singletons , pairs , — each level of the cube to the corresponding element of the chain. It is a Monotone Map.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.63 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.65
maps into the square by inclusion, missing only . See Upper Set, Booleans.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.65 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.66
See Yoneda Lemma for Preorders for the proofs. For 4: , , ; in , , and sends the bottom element of to the top element of .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.66 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.67
If then (discreteness), so , and hence by reflexivity.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.67 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.69
Let , , sending negatives to , zero to , positives to . With and : and .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.69 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.71
- , so implies .
- , which is monotonicity of . See Category of Preorders.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.71 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.73
Skeletal: and imply . Dagger: implies . Hence implies , which is the definition of discrete. So such a preorder “can be identified with” its underlying set.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.73 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.77
Let be partitions, i.e. is finer: implies . If then , hence , so . Thus . It nonetheless has a Generative Effect.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.77 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.79
Let classify , i.e. iff . Then iff iff , so classifies . This is the preorder version of preimage as precomposition (Kittenlab Lecture 14).
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.79 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.80
- for all .
- Suppose is a lower bound with . Pick with ; then , contradicting that is a lower bound. So every lower bound is .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.80 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.85
- for the only ; and if then : so is a Meet. Any other meet satisfies and , so .
- In a partial order implies .
- Yes; replace by and “meet” by “join” throughout.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.85 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.90
and : the meet is the greatest common divisor, the join the least common multiple.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.90 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.94
Since and , monotonicity gives and . So is an upper bound of , and the join is the least one: .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.94 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.98
The right adjoint is ; we must show iff . If then . If then , and since is an integer below it is below the greatest such, .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.98 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.99
- , . Checking all nine pairs, iff holds (for both sides fail; otherwise both hold), so .
- Here but , so is not left adjoint to . In pictures of total orders, adjoint pairs are exactly those whose bent arrows do not cross (Remark 1.100).
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.99 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.101
Suppose . Then iff . Take , : , so ; similarly for every , so . But then , a contradiction. So there is no left adjoint. (Equivalently: does not preserve meets — ; see Adjoint Functor Theorem for Preorders.)
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.101 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.103
; ; ; ; ; . In general merge into and take the transitive closure.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.103 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.105
iff ; since , elements are always identified: , , , , .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.105 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.106
Take ; then . Let (coarser) and (not coarser). Then and . Indeed , but since while in — consistent with the Galois Connection formula .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.106 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.109
- Apply the definition with to the reflexivity fact : .
- If , apply : . If , apply : .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.109 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.110
- Using with and monotonicity of applied to : . Symmetrically .
- Yes, by the dual argument. (Categorically: adjoints are unique up to unique Natural Isomorphism.)
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.110 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.112
Let , with join . Monotonicity gives for all , so is an upper bound of . If is another upper bound, for all , so by adjunction for all , hence , hence . So .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.112 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.114
| 1 | 1 | yes | yes |
| 1 | 2 | no | no |
| 1 | 4 | yes | yes |
| 2 | 1 | no | no |
| 2 | 2 | yes | yes |
| 2 | 4 | yes | yes |
| 3.9 | 1 | no | no |
| 3.9 | 2 | no | no |
| 3.9 | 4 | yes | yes |
| 4 | 1 | no | no |
| 4 | 2 | no | no |
| 4 | 4 | yes | yes |
All agree, so ; yet does not preserve joins (Right Adjoints Preserve Meets but not joins).
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.114 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.118
, , “projects down” (, ). 1. , . 2. , . 3. , .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.118 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.119
- This is the unit inequality of Proposition 1.107.
- : apply (1) to . : the counit gives ; apply the monotone to get .
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.119 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.124
is the Power Set of a four-element set: a 4-dimensional cube with 16 vertices, from at the bottom to the total relation at the top.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.124 and Solution A.1.
Solution 1.125
- Take : .
- , .
- .
- . This illustrates the adjunction of Reflexive Transitive Closure.
Sources: 7 Sketches, Exercise 1.125 and Solution A.1.