The Vector Space Kinna‐Wagner Principle is Equivalent to the Axiom of Choice

We show that the axiom of choice AC is equivalent to the Vector Space Kinna‐Wagner Principle, i.e., the assertion: “For every family 𝒱= {V_i : i ∈ k} of non trivial vector spaces there is a family ℱ = {F_i : i ∈ k} such that for each i ∈ k, F_i is a non empty independent subset of V_i”. We also show that the statement “every vector space over ℚ has a basis” implies that every infinite well ordered set of pairs has an infinite subset with a choice set, a fact which is known not to be a consequence of the axiom of multiple choice MC.     

Bases,spanning sets,and the axiom of choice

Two theorems are proved: First that the statement “there exists a field F such that for every vector space over F, every generating set contains a basis” implies the axiom of choice. This generalizes theorems of Halpern, Blass, and Keremedis. Secondly, we prove that the assertion that every vector space over ?₂ has a basis implies that every well‐ordered collection of two‐element sets has a choice function. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Compact and Loeb Hausdorff spaces in \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}$\mathsf {ZF}$\end{document} and the axiom of choice for families of finite sets

Given a set X, $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ denotes the statement: “$[X]^{<\omega }\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set” and $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )$ denotes the family of all closed subsets of the topological space $\mathbf {2}^{X}$ whose definition depends on a finite subset of X. We study the interrelations between the statements $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}([X]^{<\omega })},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin} (F_{n}(X,2))},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$ and “$\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set”. We show:

• (i) $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ iff $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}([X]^{<\omega } )}$ iff $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set iff $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(F_{n}(X,2))}$.
• (ii) $\mathsf {AC}_{\mathrm{fin}}$ ($\mathsf {AC}$ restricted to families of finite sets) iff for every set X, $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set.
• (iii) $\mathsf {AC}_{\mathrm{fin}}$ does not imply “$\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set($\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {X})$ is the family of all closed subsets of the space $\mathbf {X}$)
• (iv) $\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {2}^{X})\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ implies $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$ but $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ does not imply $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$.

We also show that “For every setX, “$\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set” iff “for every setX, $\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {[0,1]}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set” iff “for every product$\mathbf {X}$of finite discrete spaces,$\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {X})\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set”.     

Compact Metric Spaces and Weak Forms of the Axiom of Choice

It is shown that for compact metric spaces (X, d) the following statements are pairwise equivalent: “X is Loeb”, “X is separable”, “X has a we ordered dense subset”, “X is second countable”, and “X has a dense set G = ∪{G_n : n ∈ ω}, ∣G_n∣ < ω, with lim_n→∞ diam (G _n) = 0”. Further, it is shown that the statement: “Compact metric spaces are weakly Loeb” is not provable in ZF⁰ , the Zermelo‐Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of regularity, and that the countable axiom of choice for families of finite sets CAC_fin does not imply the statement “Compact metric spaces are separable”.     

Infinite dimensional linear groups with many G — invariant subspaces

Let F be a field, A be a vector space over F, GL(F, A) be the group of all automorphisms of the vector space A. A subspace B of A is called nearly G-invariant, if dim _F (BFG/B) is finite. A subspace B is called almost G-invariant, if dim _F (B/Core _G (B)) is finite. In the current article, we study linear groups G such that every subspace of A is either nearly G-invariant or almost G-invariant in the case when G is a soluble p-group where p = char F.     

On some infinite dimensional linear groups

Let F be a field, A be a vector space over F, and GL(F,A) the group of all automorphisms of the vector space A. A subspace B of A is called nearly G-invariant, if dim _F (BFG/B) is finite. A subspace B is called almost G-invariant, if dim _F (B/Core _G (B)) is finite. In the present article we begin the study of subgroups G of GL(F,A) such that every subspace of A is either nearly G-invariant or almost G-invariant. More precisely, we consider the case when G is a periodic p′-group where p = charF.      

The Hahn-Banach Property and the Axiom of Choice

We work in set theory ZF without axiom of choice. Though the Hahn-Banach theorem cannot be proved in ZF, we prove that every Gateaux-differentiable uniformly convex Banach space E satisfies the following continuous Hahn-Banach property: if p is a continuous sublinear functional on E, if F is a subspace of E, and if f: F → ? is a linear functional such that f ≤ p|F then there exists a linear functional g : E → ? such that g extends f and g ≤ p. We also prove that the continuous Hahn-Banach property on a topological vector space E is equivalent to the classical geometrical forms of the Hahn-Banach theorem on E. We then prove that the axiom of Dependent choices DC is equivalent to Ekeland's variational principle, and that it implies the continuous Hahn-Banach property on Gateaux-differentiable Banach spaces. Finally, we prove that, though separable normed spaces satisfy the continuous Hahn-Banach property, they do not satisfy the whole Hahn-Banach property in ZF+DC.     

Tychonoff products of compact spaces in ZF and closed ultrafilters

Let {(X_i, T_i): i ∈I } be a family of compact spaces and let X be their Tychonoff product. ??(X) denotes the family of all basic non‐trivial closed subsets of X and ??_R(X) denotes the family of all closed subsets H = V × ΠX_i of X, where V is a non‐trivial closed subset of ΠX_i and Q_H is a finite non‐empty subset of I. We show: (i) Every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X) extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ? if and only if every family H ? ??(X) with the finite intersection property (fip for abbreviation) extends to a maximal ??(X) family F with the fip. (ii) The proposition “if every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X) extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ?, then X is compact” is not provable in ZF. (iii) The statement “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ I } of compact spaces, every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(Y), Y = Π_{i ∈I}Y_i, extends to a ??_R(Y)‐ultrafilter ?” is equivalent to Tychonoff's compactness theorem. (iv) The statement “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ ω } of compact spaces, every countable filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X), X = Π_{i ∈ω}X_i, extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ?” is equivalent to Tychonoff's compactness theorem restricted to countable families. (v) The countable Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the proposition “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ ω } of compact topological spaces, every countable family ?? ? ??(X) with the fip extends to a maximal ??(X) family ? with the fip” (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A local duality principle for the Baire classes of functions

A local dual of a Banach space X is a closed subspace of X^∗ that satisfies the properties that the principle of local reflexivity assigns to X as a subspace of X∗∗. We show that, for every ordinal 1?α?ω₁, the spaces Bα[0,1] of bounded Baire functions of class α are local dual spaces of the space M[0,1] of all Borel measures. As a consequence, we derive that each annihilator Bα^⊥[0,1] is the kernel of a norm-one projection.     

Forking and Incomplete Types

Let Δ be a set of formulas. In this paper we study the following question: under what assumptions on Δ, the concept “a complete Δ-type p over B does not fork over A ? B” behaves well. We apply the results to the structure theory of ω₁-saturated models. Mathematics Subject Classification: 03C45.     

Some Weak Forms of the Axiom of Choice Restricted to the Real Line

It is shown that AC(ℝ), the axiom of choice for families of non‐empty subsets of the real line ℝ, does not imply the statement PW(ℝ), the powerset of ℝ can be well ordered. It is also shown that (1) the statement “the set of all denumerable subsets of ℝ has size 2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ ” is strictly weaker than AC(ℝ) and (2) each of the statements (i) “if every member of an infinite set of cardinality 2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ has power 2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ , then the union has power 2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ ” and (ii) “ℵ(2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ ) ≠ ℵ_ω” (ℵ(2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ ) is Hartogs' aleph, the least ℵ not ≤ 2 ${}^{\text{ℵ}{}_{\text{0}}}$ ), is strictly weaker than the full axiom of choice AC.     

Ergodic Banach spaces

We show that any Banach space contains a continuum of non-isomorphic subspaces or a minimal subspace. We define an ergodic Banach space X as a space such that E₀ Borel reduces to isomorphism on the set of subspaces of X, and show that every Banach space is either ergodic or contains a subspace with an unconditional basis which is complementably universal for the family of its block-subspaces. We also use our methods to get uniformity results. We show that an unconditional basis of a Banach space, of which every block-subspace is complemented, must be asymptotically c₀ or ?_p, and we deduce some new characterisations of the classical spaces c₀ and ?_p.     

Products of compact spaces and the axiom of choice II

This is a continuation of [2]. We study the Tychonoff Compactness Theorem for various definitions of compactness and for various types of spaces (first and second countable spaces, Hausdorff spaces, and subspaces of ?^K). We also study well ordered Tychonoff products and the effect that the multiple choice axiom has on such products.     

Some equivalents of AC in algebra

It is shown that the axiom of choice AC is equivalent to the statements: (1)For every Boolean ring (B, +, ·)and every subset H B which is closed under + there exists a –maximal ideal QB such that H Q={0} and, (2)For every Boolean ring (B,+,·),for every A B, the infinite system:X _i + y_i=b_i,iI, b _i B has a solution in A iff each of its equations has a solution in A.Presented by G. Grätzer     

The Compactness of 2ℝ and the Axiom of Choice

We show that for every we ordered cardinal number m the Tychonoff product 2^m is a compact space without the use of any choice but in Cohen's Second Mode 2^ℝ is not compact.     

Weighted algebras of integrable functions

Let G denote a compact abelian group with discrete dual group X, and let ω be a complex-valued function defined on X. For any subspace B of L¹(G), B_ω denotes the set of those elements b of B for which bω is an element of l¹(X). The question considered in this paper is “when is B_ω an algebra under pointwise multiplication?”     

Tightness relative to some (co)reflections in topology

We address what might be termed the reverse reflection problem: given a monoreflection from a category A onto a subcategory B, when is a given object B ∈ B the reflection of a proper subobject? We start with a well known specific instance of this problem, namely the fact that a compact metric space is never the ?ech-Stone compactification of a proper subspace. We show that this holds also in the pointfree setting, i.e., that a compact metrizable locale is never the ?ech-Stone compactification of a proper sublocale. This is a stronger result than the classical one, but not because of an increase in scope; after all, assuming weak choice prin­ciples, every compact regular locale is the topology of a compact Hausdorff space. The increased strength derives from the conclusion, for in general a space has many more sublocales than subspaces. We then extend the analysis from metric locales to the broader class of perfectly normal locales, i.e., those whose frame of open sets consists entirely of cozero elements. We include a second proof of these results which is purely algebraic in character.

At the opposite extreme from these results, we show that an extremally disconnected locale is a compactification of each of its dense sublocales. Finally, we analyze the same phenomena, also in the pointfree setting, for the 0-dimensional compact reflec­tion and for the Lindelöf reflection.     

Proximinality in Subspaces of c0

We say that a normed linear space X is a R(1) space if the following holds: If Y is a closed subspace of finite codimension in X and every hyperplane containing Y is proximinal in X then Y is proximinal in X. In this paper we show that any closed subspace of c₀ is a R(1) space.     

A Problem in Linear Matrix Approximation

Let A be a normal operator in ??(H), H a complex Hilbert space, and let ? _A = ? {AX - XA:X ∈ ??(H)} be the commutator subspace of ??(H) associated with A. If B in ??(H) commutes with A, then B is orthogonal to ?_A with respect to the spectral norm; i.e., the null operator is an element of best approximation of B in ? _A. This was proved by J. Anderson in 1973 and extended by P. J. Maher with respect to the Schatten p-norm recently. We take a look at their result from a more approximation theoretical point of view in the finite dimensional setting; in particular, we characterize all elements of best approximation of B in R_A and prove that the metric projection of H onto ?_A is continuous.     

On κ‐hereditary Sets and Consequences of the Axiom of Choice

We will prove that some so‐called union theorems (see [2]) are equivalent in ZF⁰ to statements about the transitive closure of relations. The special case of “bounded” union theorems dealing with κ‐hereditary sets yields equivalents to statements about the transitive closure of κ‐narrow relations. The instance κ = ω₁ (i. e., hereditarily countable sets) yields an equivalent to Howard‐Rubin's Form 172 (the transitive closure Tc(x) of every hereditarily countable set x is countable). In particular, the countable union theorem (Howard‐Rubin's Form 31) and, a fortiori, the axiom of countable choice imply Form 172.