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A refinement of Cantor’s theorem

Greg Kirmayer

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It is shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of a set containing an infinite co-infinite set to the infinite co-infinite subsets of that set. It is also shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of an infinite set to the infinite subsets of that set. The proof can be formalized in a subtheory of both Zermelo Set Theory and New Foundations (and thus makes no use of the Axiom of Choice).

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It is shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of a set containing an infinite co-infinite set to the infinite co-infinite subsets of that set. It is also shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of an infinite set to the infinite subsets of that set. The proof can be formalized in a subtheory of both Zermelo Set Theory and New Foundations (and thus makes no use of the Axiom of Choice).

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It is shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of a set containing an infinite co-infinite set to the infinite co-infinite subsets of that set. It is also shown that there is no surjection from the one-element subsets of an infinite set to the infinite subsets of that set. The proof can be formalized in a subtheory of both Zermelo Set Theory and New Foundations (and thus makes no use of the Axiom of Choice).

Key concepts: Axiom of choice, Infinite set, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, Mathematics, Surjective function, Set (abstract data type), Element (criminal law), Urelement

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