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DC and finite multiple selections
Statement
In ZF,
Also and .
Facts & Assumptions
Multiple choice and dependent multiple choice: DMC supplies finite nonempty levels with a successor for every point.
AC implies DC implies countable choice: DC implies countable choice and hence countable finite choice.
Choice for pairs and countable finite choice: Countable finite choice selects from a sequence of nonempty finite sets.
Recovering a prescribed starting point in DC: An omega path without a prescribed start suffices to obtain full DC.
The recursion theorem: Recursion applies to one self-map on a set with a supplied initial point.
Proof
Given: The objects and hypotheses in the statement.
Under DC take an -path and put . These are DMC levels. Countable finite choice follows from DC as well.
Conversely, take DMC levels for a serial relation. For each the set of linear orders on the nonempty finite is nonempty and finite (enumerate that single finite set to see this). Countable finite choice supplies an order for every .
Under MC select, once for all , a finite nonempty . Fix and set , . A finite union of finite sets is finite by finite induction, and each member has a successor in the next nonempty level. This recursion proves DMC.
Start at the -least point and take the -least -successor in . Such a successor exists by the universal successor clause of DMC. The rule is a self-map on tagged states , so recursion supplies a path. Starting-point-free DC now implies full DC.
Under countable choice select and use for the CMC selection.
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Sources
- Morillon, Synthèse, §2.1 Question 1 and §2.2.1, p.6 (standard reference, not scraped)
- alg-d, On dependent choice, DMC definition and Proposition 6, PDF p.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Jech, The Axiom of Choice, §9.1, p.133 (standard reference, not scraped)