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On a problem of Erdős concerning decompositions of the plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Roy O. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Leicester

Extract

Sierpiński ((6), (7)) proved that the continuum hypothesis implies the following proposition:

Euclidean space E3 can be decomposed into three sets Si (i = 1, 2, 3) such that, for some three straight lines Di in E3, the intersection of each line parallel to Di with the corresponding set Si is finite.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1963

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