Independent sets of closure operations

04/06/2020

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by   Nguyen Hoang Son, et al.

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In this paper independent sets of closure operations are introduced. We characterize minimal keys and antikeys of closure operations in terms of independent sets. We establish an expression on the connection between minimal keys and antikeys of closure operations based on independent sets. We construct two combinatorial algorithms for finding all minimal keys and all antikeys of a given closure operation based on independent sets. We estimate the time complexity of these algorithms. Finally, we give an NP-complete problem concerning nonkeys of closure operations.