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Variants of Essential Arity for Partial Functions

  • Received : 2018.11.07
  • Accepted : 2019.08.22
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

Generalizations of essential arity of partial functions, based on essential sets of arguments, are introduced, and their interplay with the minor relation of functions is investigated.

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