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Proof: Let i ∈ I be arbitrarily fixed. It can then be seen that D(S
i
) = X
i
. In
fact, if D
(
S
i
) ≠ X
i
, we can pick an element x
i
∈ X
i
– D(
S
i
). This implies that
D
(
S) ≠ X, because no x ∈ D
(
S) satisfies
contradiction.
Let arbitrary, and assume
Since it is assumed that
S
is
precausal, for any implies that from Theorem
10.3.6. Therefore, when the elements x,y ∈ X satisfy
and
for every j ∈ I with j ≠ i, we have
Thus
(10.101)
Applying Theorem 10.3.6 we have shown that each component system S
i
is
precausal.
Example 10.4.1.
We will construct an example to show that even though an overall
system S is functional, none of the component systems S
i
is functional.
Suppose the index set I = {1,2} and the sets X
1
, X
2
, Y
1
, and Y
2
are all the
same, namely the set of all integers. Let S be a functional linear system from
X
1
×
X
2
into
Y
1
×
Y
2
defined by
S
(
n,m
) = (
m,n
)
(10.102)
for any and
Then it can be easily seen that neither
S
1
nor S
2
is functional.
Proposition 10.4.5. Suppose that S ⊂ X × Y is a functional system that has been
decomposed into a family of component systems with
Then each component system S
i
is also functional. If, moreover, the
overall system S is bijective, each component system S
i
is also bijective.
Proof: For any fixed i
∈ I, let be arbitrary. Since
due to the assumption, there exist elements (x,y), (x,z)
∈ S such
that
and
Because S is functional, y = z, so,
That is, the component system
S
i
is functional.
Suppose S is a bijective function from X onto Y. For any y
i
∈ Y
i
there exists
an element y ∈ Y such that From the hypothesis that S is bijective,
it follows that there exists an element x
∈ X such that S(x) = y. Therefore, for
That is, S
i
is surjective. Let (
x
i
,y
i
) and (
w
i
,y
i
) ∈ S
i
be
arbitrary. Then there exist (x,y) and (w,y)
∈ S such that and