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I added to continuum hypothesis a description of Easton’s theorem, and created a page on König’s theorem. The latter could stand a number of redirects due to variant spellings.
Ooh, I should add stuff about class forcing, I know…
I added some stuff at König’s theorem around the corollary. It needs much improvement. Including, for instance, a discussion of the structural interpretation using a notion of cofinality adapted to coproducts in categories of sets smaller than a given set.
David: That link is incorrect. ’Lemma’ should be ’theorem’.
(Amusingly, the article even warns: not to be confused with König’s lemma! The latter is probably a better known result.)
Sorry! Brain wasn’t thinking. I’ve edited.
An interesting thing I relearned is that in ZF one can have a partition of an uncountable set into just two strictly smaller subsets. I think I’m coming to think of König’s corollary (yes, meant that one) as a kind of rigidity result about well-orderable sets with well-orderable powerset. Something analogous to the trichotomy result for the ordering of cardinals. Of course, the big question in my mind is whether any version of the corollary forces well-orderability, where by any version I mean for a sensible definition of cofinality in the absence of AC.
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