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- From: goldstrn@math.fu-berlin.de (Martin Goldstern)
- Subject: Re: Alephs again (two answers)
- Message-ID: <GZZ0R8T@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Summary: Injex does not follow from ZFC and does not imply GCH
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1993Jan19.082655.6274@dxcern.cern.ch> <1993Jan19.150606.21751@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.003806.9847@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:39:50 GMT
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- Daniel Asimov defined
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- (Injex) Let A and B be any two cardinal numbers.
- Then 2^A = 2^B implies that A = B.
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- and asked if Injex was provable from ZFC or equivalent to GCH.
- The answer to both questions is no.
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- Injex does not imply the GCH, as for example
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- 2^{aleph_n} = aleph_{n+2} for all n < omega
- (and GCH otherwise)
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- is known to be consistent with ZFC (by Easton's theorem).
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- Injex does not follow from ZFC, as for example
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- 2^{aleph_0} = 2^{aleph_1} = aleph_2
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- is consistent with ZFC (already by Cohen's result).
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- These theorems were proved in the 60s.
- They both only assume the consistency of ZF.
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- I recommend the books of Kunen and Jech for proofs of these and
- related results.
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- Martin Goldstern
- goldstrn@math.fu-berlin.de
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