User:IssaRice/Schröder–Bernstein theorem: Difference between revisions

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questions:

are the ancestor proof and the iterated partition proof actually different, or do they just look different on the surface? btw this is a very nice writeup of the ancestor proof (much clearer than wikipedia's version); HT Satira. UPDATE: these are actually basically the same proof, just written in different notation.
what is the proof that uses axiom of choice, and how does choice simplify the proof?
is the result a fixed point result? (if so how can we phrase it as such?) or is it just that some of the proofs makes use of the fixed point ideas?

$f:A\to B$

$g:B\to A$

$C_{0}=A\setminus g(B)$

$C_{n+1}=(g\circ f)(C_{n})$ for all $n\geq 0$

$D_{0}=B\setminus f(A)$

$D_{n+1}=(f\circ g)(D_{n})$ for all $n\geq 0$

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 * what is the proof that uses axiom of choice, and how does choice simplify the proof?
 * is the result a fixed point result? (if so how can we phrase it as such?) or is it just that some of the proofs makes use of the fixed point ideas?
+==Unified notation==
+<math>f : A \to B</math>
+<math>g : B \to A</math>
+<math>C_0 = A \setminus g(B)</math>
+<math>C_{n+1} = (g \circ f)(C_n)</math> for all <math>n \geq 0</math>
+<math>D_0 = B \setminus f(A)</math>
+<math>D_{n+1} = (f \circ g)(D_n)</math> for all <math>n \geq 0</math>
 ==References==