Sorry, I'm half sleeping: this indeed doesn't specify anything about
whether the pairs have to be distinct.


2014-02-07 19:45 GMT+01:00 Nico Van Cleemput <[email protected]>:

> Dear Robert
>
> If you look at the help message for is_transitive() then you see that the
> definition is this: A digraph is transitive if for any pair of vertices u,v
> in G linked by a uv-path the edge uv belongs to G.
>
> Cheers
> Nico
>
>
> 2014-02-07 19:35 GMT+01:00 Robert <[email protected]>:
>
> A student in my discrete structures course found what he thinks is a bug
>> in Sage's treatment of directed graphs. Consider the relation given by the
>> Python dictionary:
>>
>> {0: [1], 1: [0], 2: [3], 3: [2]}
>>
>> So 0 is related to 1 and vice versa, and 2 is related to 3 and vice
>> versa. This is NOT a transitive relation, because if it were, then 0 would
>> have to be related to itself. (I.e. there would be a loop on the directed
>> graph at 0.)
>>
>> However, when you enter the following code:
>>
>> *r = {0: [1], 1: [0], 2: [3], 3: [2]} *
>> *g = DiGraph(r)*
>> *g.is_transitive()*
>>
>> ...you get "True". Is this because is_transitive has a bug; because Sage
>> doesn't like its directed graphs to have loops; because the is_transitive
>> method is using a different definition of "transitive" than we are*, or
>> what?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Robert
>>
>> * For example it could be using a definition of transitive that says "For
>> all DISTINCT a,b,c in A, if (a,b) and (b,c) then (a,c)." I don't know.
>>
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