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- From: pt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Paul Taylor)
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- Subject: Re: The Schroder-Bernstein Theorem.
- Keywords: fixpoint, adjunction
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.152649.13746@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:26:49 GMT
- References: <1992Mar20.141024.252962@cs.cmu.edu> <15994@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Sender: Paul Taylor <pt@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London.
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- The following proof of the Schroder-Bernstein Theorem is my own,
- but was inspired by that in Peter Johnstone's book "Set Theory and Logic"
- (Cambridge University Press).
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- Y denotes the "least fixed point" of a monotone endofunction of a poset.
- f^*(V) is the inverse image of a subset under a function.
- f_! and f_* denote the left and right adjoints of f^* considered as a monotone
- function between powersets.
- In fact f_!(U)={y:some x in U.fx=y} and f_*(U)={y:all y.fx=y => x in U}.
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- Let f:A->B and g:B->A be injective functions.
- Consider the subsets U=Y(g_!f_*) of A and V=Y(f_!g_*) of B.
- (Right-to-left composition; when I say "consider", I mean you have to think
- about it for a few minutes.).
- The given functions f and g restrict to bijections between U and B-V
- and between V and A-U.
-
- The result depends on (and is probably equivalent to) Excluded Middle.
-