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AD implies countable choice for subsets of Baire space
Statement
In ZF+AD, every sequence of nonempty subsets of has a sequence with . This asserts countable choice for Baire reals, not unrestricted dependent choice.
Facts & Assumptions
Assume AD as in Axiom of determinacy for natural-number games; it determines every payoff on the full natural-number tree.
Proof
Given: The sequence of nonempty Baire subsets in the statement, in ZF+AD.
In a natural-number game let I's initial move be , and let II's successive moves form . Ignore all later I moves. Declare II the winner exactly when , so the complementary condition defines I's payoff as a subset of the full play space. For any particular I strategy its first move is some ; nonemptiness of that single gives one . Playing its coordinates defeats that strategy regardless of later I moves. Thus no I strategy wins; this argument has made no simultaneous choice from the family.
By A1 the game is determined, and step 1.1 excludes I, so fix a winning II strategy . For each simulate the unique play beginning with I's move and having all later I moves zero, with II following . Recursion on length uniquely defines this play, and Replacement over forms the sequence of its II subsequences . Since every simulated play follows the winning , its II subsequence belongs to . Hence is the promised selection. This includes and singleton without any extra choice. QED.
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Sources
- Proposition 10.14, printed p101; full proof read (standard reference, not scraped)