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Non-well-foundedness of well-orderable power sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

T. E. Forster  and
J. K. Truss
T. E. Forster
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
J. K. Truss
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Tarski [5] showed that for any set X, its set ω(X) of well-orderable subsets has cardinality strictly greater than that of X, even in the absence of the axiom of choice. We construct a Fraenkel-Mostowski model in which there is an infinite strictly descending sequence under the relation ∣ω(X)∣ = ∣Y∣. This contrasts with the corresponding situation for power sets, where use of Hartogs' ℵ-function easily establishes that there can be no infinite descending sequence under the relation .

Keywords

well-orderablewell-foundedcardinal number
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 879 - 884
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2003

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