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On the interaction between closure operations and choice functions with applications to relational databases. (English) Zbl 0787.68032

Summary: A correspondence between closure operations and special choice functions on a finite set is established. This correspondence is applied to study functional dependencies in relational databases.

MSC:

68P15 Database theory
06A15 Galois correspondences, closure operators (in relation to ordered sets)
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