Topics for oral exam

  1. Axioms and structures
    • The axioms and their consequences
    • Product structures
    • Natural number structures
    • The (parameterised) recursion theorem
    • Von Neumann numbers
  2. Basic cardinal arithmetic
    • Equality and the order relations on cardinals
    • The Schröder-Bernstein theorem
    • Sums and products of cardinals
    • Cardinals that are their own squares.
  3. Ordinals and well-orders
    • Ordinal structures
    • Von Neumann ordinals
    • Formulations of transfinite induction
    • Trensfinite recursion
    • Ordinal arithmetic
    • Well-founded relations and well-orders
    • The classification theorem
    • Sums and products of well-orders
  4. The cardinal arithmetic of alephs (without choice)
    • Hartog's lemma
    • Initial ordinals
    • Definition of the omena and aleph herarchies
    • Addition and multiplication of alephs
    • Alephs are their own squares
  5. The axiom of choice
    • X well-orderable iff P(X) has a choice function
    • Formulastion of AC
    • Proof that Zorn's lemma is equivalent to AC
    • Other equivalent statements to AC
    • Countable and dependent choice
    • Vitali's theorem
    • The statement (but not proof) of the Banach-Tarski theorem
  6. Cardinal arithmetic with choice
    • Indexed sums and products of cardinals
    • Laws involving sums, products and exponentiation
    • König's theorem and its proof
    • Provable and unprovable properties of 2 to the power of aleph_alpha
    • Cofinality and the cofinality bound for 2 to the power of aleph_alpha
  7. Singular, regular and inaccessible cardinals
    • Cofinality and its basic properties
    • Singular and regular cardinals
    • Successor cardinals are regular
    • Inaccessible cardinals
    • Grothendieck universes
  8. Sets of real numbers
    • Cardinalities of open and closed sets
    • The cardinality of the set of all open sets
    • Perfect sets and the Cantor set as an example
    • Every uncountable closed set contains a perfect subset
    • The Borel hierarchy
    • The cardinality of the set of all Borel sets

Notes: The following are specifically not examinable:

  • The proof of the Banach-Tarski theorem
  • Gale-Stewart games
  • Lecture 14
Zadnja sprememba: ponedeljek, 13 junij 2022, 11:54 AM