TheoremStatement: AI-adaptedProof: AI-generatedSession-authored (Fable 5 assisted)precheck passaudited 2026-08-28‡ rests on unproved material (inherited)

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‡ Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are ‡ Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, ‡ Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and ‡ The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

Assuming the Axiom of Choice, abelian groups satisfy AB4*

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice. Then the abelian category $A b$ satisfies AB4*.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The Axiom of Choice and a small family of epimorphisms of abelian groups $e_{i} : A_{i} ↠ B_{i}$ .

[L1]

AB4* means that small products of epimorphisms remain epimorphic (The axioms AB4 and AB4*).

[L2]

The Axiom of Choice gives a choice function for every family of nonempty sets (The Axiom of Choice).

[F1]

In $A b$ , epimorphisms are exactly surjective homomorphisms.

Proof

technique · direct

1.1

Let $b = (b_{i}) \in \prod_{i} B_{i}$ . By [F1], each $e_{i}$ is surjective, so every fibre $e_{i}^{- 1} (b_{i})$ is nonempty. By [L2], choose $a_{i} \in A_{i}$ with $e_{i} (a_{i}) = b_{i}$ for every index $i$ . Then $a = (a_{i}) \in \prod_{i} A_{i}$ satisfies $(\prod_{i} e_{i}) (a) = b .$ So $\prod_{i} e_{i}$ is surjective, hence epic in $A b$ .

L2F1construct

2.1

This is exactly the AB4* condition of [L1]. Therefore, assuming the Axiom of Choice, $A b$ satisfies AB4*.

L1step 1.1∎

Depends on

Used by

FALSE under the Axiom of Choice: AB4 implies AB5 False statement

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Sources

Charles A. Weibel, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Appendix A.4 (standard reference, not scraped)