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| Definition | df-cf 4801 | Define the cofinality function. Definition B of Saharon Shelah, Cardinal Arithmetic (1994), p. xxx (Roman numeral 30). See cfval 4889 for its value and a description. |
| Theorem | oncardval 4802 | The value of the cardinal number function with an ordinal number as its argument. Unlike cardval 4809, this theorem does not require the Axiom of Choice. |
| Theorem | oncardon 4803 | The cardinal number of an ordinal number is an ordinal number. Unlike cardon 4810, this theorem does not require the Axiom of Choice. |
| Theorem | oncardid 4804 | Any ordinal number is equinumerous to its cardinal number. Unlike cardid 4811, this theorem does not require the Axiom of Choice. |
| Theorem | cardonle 4805 | The cardinal of an ordinal number is less than or equal to the ordinal number. Proposition 10.6(3) of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. |
| Theorem | card0 4806 | The cardinality of the empty set is the empty set. |
| Theorem | cardnn 4807 | The cardinality of a natural number is the number. Corollary 10.23 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 90. |
| Theorem | cardom 4808 | The set of natural numbers is a cardinal number. Theorem 18.11 of [Monk1] p. 133. |
| Theorem | cardval 4809 | The value of the cardinal number function. Definition 10.4 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. See cardval2 4838 for a simpler version of its value. |
| Theorem | cardon 4810 | The cardinal number of a set is an ordinal number. Proposition 10.6(1) of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. Unlike Takeuti/Zaring's proposition, we need the Axiom of Choice (in cardval 4809) because of our slightly different definition of of cardinal number. |
| Theorem | cardid 4811 | Any set is equinumerous to its cardinal number. Proposition 10.5 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. |
| Theorem | oncard 4812 | A set is a cardinal number iff it equals its own cardinal number. Proposition 10.9 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. |
| Theorem | cardne 4813 | No member of a cardinal number of a set is equinumerous to the set. Proposition 10.6(2) of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. |
| Theorem | carden 4814 |
Two sets are equinumerous iff their cardinal numbers are equal. This
important theorem expresses the essential concept behind
"cardinality"
or "size." This theorem appears as Proposition 10.10 of [TakeutiZaring]
p. 85, Theorem 7P of [Enderton] p. 197,
and Theorem 9 of [Suppes] p. 242
(among others). The Axiom of Choice is required for its proof.
The theory of cardinality can also be developed without AC by introducing "card" as a primitive notion and stating this theorem as an axiom, as is done with the axiom for cardinal numbers in [Suppes] p. 111. Finally, if we allow the Axiom of Regularity, we can avoid AC by defining the cardinal number of a set as the set of all sets equinumerous to it and having least possible rank (see karden 4709). |
| Theorem | cardeq0 4815 | Only the empty set has cardinality zero. |
| Theorem | card1 4816 | A set has cardinality one iff it is a singleton. |
| Theorem | cardsn 4817 | A singleton has cardinality one. |
| Theorem | carddomi 4818 | Two sets have the dominance relationship if their cardinalities have the subset relationship. |
| Theorem | carddom 4819 | Two sets have the dominance relationship iff their cardinalities have the subset relationship. Equation i of [Quine] p. 232. |
| Theorem | cardsdom 4820 | Two sets have the strict dominance relationship iff their cardinalities have the membership relationship. Corollary 19.7(2) of [Eisenberg] p. 310. |
| Theorem | domtri 4821 | Trichotomy law for dominance and strict dominance. This theorem is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. |
| Theorem | entri 4822 | Trichotomy of equinumerosity and strict dominance. This theorem is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. Theorem 8 of [Suppes] p. 242. |
| Theorem | entri2 4823 | Trichotomy of dominance and strict dominance. |
| Theorem | entri3 4824 | Trichotomy of dominance. This theorem is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. Part of Proposition 4.42(d) of [Mendelson] p. 275. |
| Theorem | sucdom 4825 | Strict dominance of a set over a natural number is the same as dominance over its successor. The proof uses AC and Infinity. It is unclear if a proof without using these is possible, unlike the weaker versions omsucdom 4511, sucdomi 4512, and finsucdom 4515. |
| Theorem | unxpdomlem 4826 | Lemma for unxpdom 4827. |
| Theorem | unxpdom 4827 | Cross product dominates union for sets with cardinality greater than 1. Proposition 10.36 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 93. |
| Theorem | unxpdom2 4828 | Corollary of unxpdom 4827. |
| Theorem | sucxpdom 4829 | Cross product dominates successor for set with cardinality greater than 1. Proposition 10.38 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 93 (but generalized to arbitrary sets, not just ordinals, with a proof using AC). |
| Theorem | sdomel 4830 | Strict dominance implies ordinal membership. |
| Theorem | sdomsdomcard 4831 | A set strictly dominates iff its cardinal strictly dominates. |
| Theorem | cardidm 4832 | The cardinality function is idempotent. Proposition 10.11 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 85. |
| Theorem | canth3 4833 | Cantor's theorem in terms of cardinals. This theorem tells us that no matter how large a cardinal number is, there is a still larger cardinal number. Theorem 18.12 of [Monk1] p. 133. |
| Theorem | cardlim 4834 | An infinite cardinal is a limit ordinal. Equivalent to Exercise 4 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 91. |
| Theorem | cardsdomel 4835 | A cardinal strictly dominates its members. Equivalent to Proposition 10.37 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 93 (use cardsdom 4820 to obtain the exact proposition from this one). |
| Theorem | iscard 4836 | Two ways to express the property of being a cardinal number. |
| Theorem | iscard2 4837 | Two ways to express the property of being a cardinal number. Definition 8 of [Suppes] p. 225. |
| Theorem | cardval2 4838 |
An alternate version of the value of the cardinal number of a set.
Compare cardval 4809. This theorem could be used to give us a
simpler
definition of |
| Theorem | ondomon 4839 | The collection of ordinal numbers dominated by a set is an ordinal number. (In general, not all collections of ordinal numbers are ordinal.) Theorem 56 of [Suppes] p. 227. |
| Theorem | ondomcard 4840 | The class of ordinal numbers dominated by a set is a cardinal number. Theorem 59 of [Suppes] p. 228. |
| Theorem | carduni 4841 | The union of a set of cardinals is a cardinal. Theorem 18.14 of [Monk1] p. 133. |
| Theorem | cardiun 4842 | The indexed union of a set of cardinals is a cardinal. |
| Theorem | cardmin 4843 | The smallest ordinal that strictly dominates a set is a cardinal. |
| Theorem | cardprc 4844 | The class of all cardinal numbers is not a set (i.e. is a proper class). Theorem 19.8 of [Eisenberg] p. 310. |
| Theorem | alephfnon 4845 | The aleph function is a function on the class of ordinal numbers. |
| Theorem | aleph0 4846 |
The first infinite cardinal number, discovered by Georg Cantor in 1873,
has the same size as the set of natural numbers |
| Theorem | alephlim 4847 | Value of the aleph function at a limit ordinal. Definition 12(iii) of [Suppes] p. 91. |
| Theorem | alephon 4848 | An aleph is an ordinal number. |
| Theorem | alephsuc 4849 | Value of the aleph function at a successor ordinal. Definition 12(ii) of [Suppes] p. 91. |
| Theorem | alephcard 4850 | Every aleph is a cardinal number. Theorem 65 of [Suppes] p. 229. |
| Theorem | alephnbtwn 4851 | No cardinal can be sandwiched between an aleph and its successor aleph. Theorem 67 of [Suppes] p. 229. |
| Theorem | alephnbtwn2 4852 | No set has equinumerosity between an aleph and its successor aleph. |
| Theorem | alephsucpw 4853 | The power set of an aleph dominates the successor aleph. (The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis says they are equinumerous.) |
| Theorem | aleph1 4854 | The set exponentiation of 2 to the aleph-zero has cardinality of at least aleph-one. (If we were to assume the Continuum Hypothesis, their cardinalities would be the same.) |
| Theorem | alephordlem1 4855 | Lemma for alephordi 4857. |
| Theorem | alephordlem2 4856 | Lemma for alephordi 4857. |
| Theorem | alephordi 4857 | Strict ordering property of the aleph function. |
| Theorem | alephord 4858 | Ordering property of the aleph function. |
| Theorem | alephord2 4859 | Ordering property of the aleph function. Theorem 8A(a) of [Enderton] p. 213 and its converse. |
| Theorem | alephord2i 4860 | Ordering property of the aleph function. Theorem 66 of [Suppes] p. 229. |
| Theorem | alephord3 4861 | Ordering property of the aleph function. |
| Theorem | aleph11 4862 | The aleph function is one-to-one. |
| Theorem | alephsucdom 4863 | A set dominated by an aleph is strictly dominated by its successor aleph and vice-versa. |
| Theorem | alephsuc2 4864 |
An alternate representation of a successor aleph. Using this theorem
we could define the aleph function with |
| Theorem | alephgeom 4865 | Every aleph is greater than or equal to the set of natural numbers. |
| Theorem | alephislim 4866 | Every aleph is a limit ordinal. |
| Theorem | alephle 4867 | The argument of the aleph function is less than or equal to its value. Exercise 2 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 91. (Later, in alephfp2 4884, we will that equality can sometimes hold.) |
| Theorem | cardaleph 4868 |
Given any transfinite cardinal number |