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Constructing Cantorian counterexamples (English)
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5 August 1997
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Cantor's well-known theorem on the power set follows from each of the two propositions: (i) There is no surjective mapping of a set \(A\) onto its power set \({\mathfrak P} (A)\). (ii) There is no injective mapping of \({\mathfrak P} (A)\) into \(A\). The author constructs a proof of (ii) which is in some sense more constructive than the usual proofs. As a strengthening of the non-injectivity he further proves: If \({\mathfrak P} (A) \to A\) is a mapping, then there exist subsets \(B,C\) of \(A\) with \(f(B)= f(C)\), and where \(B\) is a proper subset of \(C\).
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Cantor's theorem
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diagonal argument
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power set
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constructive
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