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An ultrafilter containing all cocountable subsets
Statement
In ZFC, for every uncountable set there is an ultrafilter on containing every cocountable subset of . Every member of is uncountable. No countable-completeness assertion is made.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An uncountable set ; assume AC.
A filter contains , omits , and is closed upward and under pairwise intersection. Filter on a set
Under AC every filter extends to an ultrafilter. The ultrafilter lemma, from the Axiom of Choice: every filter extends to an ultrafilter
A countable union of countable sets is countable under countable choice. Countable unions of at most countable sets, assuming
Subsets of countable sets are countable. Every subset of an at most countable set is at most countable
Assume AC. The Axiom of Choice
Proof
Set . It contains because the empty set is countable, and omits because is uncountable. If and , then , so F4 gives .
If , then is countable: apply F3 to the sequence with these first two terms and empty remaining terms, using the countable choice supplied by A1. Therefore . Together with step 1.1 this verifies every filter axiom in F1.
Apply F2 to this proper filter, using A1, to obtain an ultrafilter . If countable belonged to , its complement would belong to ; F1 would put in , contradicting properness. Thus every member of is uncountable. Only pairwise intersections were used.
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Sources
- Monk, Set theory following Jech (2024), Lemma 16.36 proof, assertion (1), printed p331; proper-filter construction expanded locally (standard reference, not scraped)